Jeremiah 6:8

Modern English Version

Be instructed, O Jerusalem, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.

Cross References

Psalm 2:10

Now then, you kings, be wise; be admonished, you judges of the earth.

Psalm 50:17

For you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.

Psalm 94:12

Blessed is the man whom You discipline, O  Lord, and teach from Your law,

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to counsel and accept instruction, that you may be wise in your future.

Proverbs 4:13

Take hold of instruction; do not let her go; guard her, for she is your life.

Jeremiah 17:23

But they did not obey or incline their ears, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear or receive instruction.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions roared at him and roared loudly, and they made his land a waste; his cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 31:19

Surely after I turned back, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck myself on my thigh; I was ashamed and even humiliated because I bore the reproach of my youth.”

Jeremiah 32:33

They have turned their back to Me and not their face. Though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have neither listened nor received instruction.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out upon this place, upon man and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 7:28

You shall say to them: This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God or receive correction. Truth has perished, and has been cut off from their mouth.

Jeremiah 7:34

Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of laughter and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become desolate.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins and a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Ezekiel 23:18

So she uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness. Then My soul became disgusted with her, as My soul became disgusted with her sister.

Hosea 2:5

For their mother has played the whore. She that conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will pursue my lovers, who provide my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”

Hosea 9:12

Though they bring up their children, I will bereave them until none are left. Woe to them indeed, when I depart from them!

Leviticus 26:34

Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

Zephaniah 3:7

I said, “Surely you will fear Me; and you will receive correction.” So her dwelling will not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed against her. But they were more eager to corrupt all their deeds.

Deuteronomy 32:29

Would that they were wise, so that they understood this, so that they would comprehend their future!