Jeremiah 2:19

New English Translation

Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Lord God who rules over all.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

Elijah replied, “I have not brought disaster on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the Lord’s commandments and following the Baals.

2 Chronicles 12:5

Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.’”

2 Chronicles 21:10

So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. At that same time Libnah also rebelled and freed themselves from Judah’s control because Jehoram rejected the Lord God of his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 25:16

While he was speaking, Amaziah said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”

Psalm 36:1

An evil man is rebellious to the core. He does not fear God,

Exodus 33:6

So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

Proverbs 1:31

Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.

Proverbs 1:32

For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Proverbs 5:22

The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Too bad for them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.

Isaiah 50:1

This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.

Jeremiah 1:16

In this way I will pass sentence on the people of Jerusalem and Judah because of all their wickedness. For they rejected me and offered sacrifices to other gods, worshiping what they made with their own hands.”

Jeremiah 13:22

You will probably ask yourself, ‘Why have these things happened to me? Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?’ It is because you have sinned so much.

Jeremiah 2:17

You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.

Jeremiah 3:22

Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. Say, ‘Here we are. We come to you because you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 4:18

“The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”

Jeremiah 5:22

“You should fear me!” says the Lord. “You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say to themselves, “Let us revere the Lord our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”

Jeremiah 5:6

So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the desert they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things.

Jeremiah 7:19

But I am not really the one being troubled!” says the Lord. “Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!

Jeremiah 8:5

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

Ezekiel 23:30

I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

Ezekiel 39:24

According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

Hosea 11:7

My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!

Hosea 13:9

I will destroy you, O Israel! Who is there to help you?

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!

Hosea 4:16

Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the Lord will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field!

Hosea 5:5

The arrogance of Israel testifies against it; Israel and Ephraim will be overthrown because of their iniquity. Even Judah will be brought down with them.

Hosea 7:2

They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

Hosea 9:1

O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute's wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.

Micah 1:5

All this is because of Jacob’s rebellion and the sins of the nation of Israel. How has Jacob rebelled, you ask? Samaria epitomizes their rebellion! Where are Judah’s pagan worship centers, you ask? They are right in Jerusalem!

Zechariah 7:11

“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

Romans 3:18

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Judges 10:13

But since you abandoned me and worshiped other gods, I will not deliver you again.