Jeremiah 2:2

Modern English Version

Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the Lord: I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, when you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Cross References

Psalm 129:1

“Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth—” let Israel now say —

Exodus 14:31

When Israel saw the great power which the Lord used upon the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in His servant Moses.

Exodus 16:8

Then Moses said, “This will happen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy, for the Lord hears your murmurings which you murmur against Him. And what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.”

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom cries out in the street, she raises her voice in the markets.

Song of Solomon 3:11

Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day of the gladness of his heart.

Song of Solomon 3:6

What is that coming up from the wilderness, like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the scented powders of the merchant?

Isaiah 58:1

Cry aloud, do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 11:6

Then the Lord said to me: Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

Jeremiah 19:2

Then go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you,

Jeremiah 2:1

Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not say, “Where is the Lord who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through and where no man lived?”

Jeremiah 3:4

Shall you not from this time cry to Me, “My Father, You are the guide of my youth?

Jeremiah 7:2

Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord and proclaim there this word: Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah, who enter at these gates to worship the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:22

Besides all your abominations and your harlotries you have not remembered the days of your youth when you were naked and bare and were polluted in your blood.

Ezekiel 16:60

Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

Ezekiel 16:8

When I passed by you and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time for love. So I spread My garment over you and covered your nakedness. Indeed, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became Mine.

Ezekiel 23:19

Yet she multiplied her harlotries while remembering the days of her youth in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:3

And they committed harlotries in Egypt. They committed harlotries in their youth. There their breasts were pressed, and there their virgin bosom was handled.

Ezekiel 23:8

She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured their harlotry upon her.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

Hosea 2:15

From there, I will give her vineyards to her, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope. She will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Hosea 2:17

I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will no longer be remembered by their name.

Hosea 2:7

She will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them; and she will seek them but will not find them. Then she will say, “I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.”

Hosea 8:1

Set the trumpet to your mouth! One like an eagle is on the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

Hosea 9:10

Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they went to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame, and they became an abomination like the thing they loved.

Jonah 1:2

“Get up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it, because their wickedness has come up before Me.”

Matthew 11:15

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Luke 12:13

Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

Deuteronomy 2:7

“For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the works of your hands. He knows your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”

Deuteronomy 33:3

Surely, He loved the people; all His holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; everyone receives Your words.

Deuteronomy 8:2

You must remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

James 4:4

You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Revelation 2:4

“But I have something against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.