Jeremiah 2:7

New American Bible - revised edition

I brought you into the garden land to eat its fine fruits, But you entered and defiled my land, you turned my heritage into an abomination.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:25

They captured fortified cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all good things, Cisterns already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate and had their fill, fattened and feasted on your great goodness.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

Isaiah 19:25

when the Lord of hosts gives this blessing: “Blessed be my people Egypt, and the work of my hands Assyria, and my heritage, Israel.”

Jeremiah 16:18

I will at once repay them double for their crime and their sin because they profaned my land with the corpses of their detestable idols, and filled my heritage with their abominations.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and then becomes the wife of another, Can she return to the first? Would not this land be wholly defiled? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers, and yet you would return to me!—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:2

Raise your eyes to the heights, and look, where have men not lain with you? Along the roadways you waited for them like an Arabian in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution.

Jeremiah 3:9

With her casual prostitution, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and wood.

Jeremiah 32:23

They went in and took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice. They did not live by your law; they did not do anything you commanded them to do. Then you made all this evil fall upon them.

Jeremiah 32:30

From their youth the Israelites and the Judahites have been doing only what is evil in my eyes; the Israelites have been provoking me with the works of their hands—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:24

because they did not carry out my ordinances, but rejected my statutes and desecrated my sabbaths, having eyes only for the idols of their ancestors.

Ezekiel 20:28

When I brought them to the land I had sworn to give them, and they saw all its high hills and leafy trees, there they offered sacrifices, there they made offerings to provoke me, there they sent up sweet-smelling oblations, there they poured out their libations.

Ezekiel 20:6

That day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to the land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, a jewel among all lands.

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore thus says the Lord God: You have forgotten me and cast me behind your back; now suffer for your depravity and prostitution.

Ezekiel 36:17

Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in its land, they defiled it with their behavior and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the impurity of a woman in menstruation.

Hosea 9:3

They will not dwell in the Lord’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

Micah 2:10

“Get up! Leave, this is no place to rest”; Because of uncleanness that destroys with terrible destruction.

Numbers 13:27

They told Moses: “We came to the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, and here is its fruit.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his corpse shall not remain on the tree overnight. You must bury it the same day; anyone who is hanged is a curse of God. You shall not defile the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage.

Deuteronomy 32:9

But the Lord’s portion was his people; his allotted share was Jacob.

Deuteronomy 6:18

Do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you, and you may enter in and possess the good land which the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors,