Jeremiah 2:6

New American Bible - revised edition

They did not ask, “Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, through a land of wastes and ravines, A land of drought and darkness, a land which no one crosses, where no one dwells?”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found them in a wilderness, a wasteland of howling desert. He shielded them, cared for them, guarded them as the apple of his eye.

Hosea 13:4

I, the Lord, am your God, since the land of Egypt; Gods apart from me you do not know; there is no savior but me.

Matthew 4:16

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen.”

Hosea 12:13

Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel served for a wife; for a wife he tended sheep.

Jeremiah 5:2

They say, “As the Lord lives,” but in fact they swear falsely.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law did not know me: the shepherds rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after useless idols.

Jeremiah 2:2

Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear! I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, Following me in the wilderness, in a land unsown.

Isaiah 64:7

Yet, Lord, you are our father; we are the clay and you our potter: we are all the work of your hand.

Isaiah 63:9

in their every affliction. It was not an envoy or a messenger, but his presence that saved them. Because of his love and pity the Lord redeemed them, Lifting them up and carrying them all the days of old.

Psalm 77:5

You have kept me from closing my eyes in sleep; I am troubled and cannot speak.

Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff comfort me.

Job 35:10

No one says, “Where is God, my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Job 3:5

May darkness and gloom claim it, clouds settle upon it, blackness of day affright it!

2 Kings 2:14

Wielding the mantle which had fallen from Elijah, he struck the water and said, “The Lord, the God of Elijah—where is he now?” He struck the water: it divided, and he crossed over. Elisha’s Journey.

Judges 6:13

“My lord,” Gideon said to him, “if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are his wondrous deeds about which our ancestors told us when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ For now the Lord has abandoned us and has delivered us into the power of Midian.”

Exodus 20:2

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Deuteronomy 1:19

Then we set out from Horeb and journeyed through that whole vast and fearful wilderness that you have seen, in the direction of the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord, our God, had commanded; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord, your God, before he brings darkness; Before your feet stumble on mountains at twilight; Before the light you look for turns to darkness, changes into black clouds.

Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities have become wasteland, a parched and arid land Where no one lives, no one passes through.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember how for these forty years the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the wilderness, so as to test you by affliction, to know what was in your heart: to keep his commandments, or not.

Jeremiah 5:12

They denied the Lord, saying, “He is nothing, No evil shall come to us, neither sword nor famine shall we see.

Amos 2:10

It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and who led you through the desert for forty years, to occupy the land of the Amorites;