Jeremiah 6:8

New English Translation

So take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust and make you desolate, a place where no one can live.”

Cross References

Psalm 2:10

So now, you kings, do what is wise; you rulers of the earth, submit to correction!

Psalm 50:17

For you hate instruction and reject my words.

Psalm 94:12

How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord, the one whom you teach from your law,

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.

Proverbs 4:13

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

Jeremiah 17:23

Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.’

Jeremiah 2:15

Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.

Jeremiah 31:19

For after we turned away from you we repented. After we came to our senses we beat our breasts in sorrow. We are ashamed and humiliated because of the disgraceful things we did previously.’

Jeremiah 32:33

They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. I tried over and over again to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction.

Jeremiah 4:14

“Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?

Jeremiah 7:20

So,” the Lord God says, “my raging fury will be poured out on this land. It will be poured out on human beings and animals, on trees and crops. And it will burn like a fire which cannot be extinguished.”

Jeremiah 7:28

So tell them: ‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the Lord their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore.

Jeremiah 7:34

I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, or the glad celebration of brides and grooms throughout the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For the whole land will become a desolate wasteland.”

Jeremiah 9:11

The Lord said, “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them.”

Ezekiel 23:18

When she lustfully exposed her nakedness, I was disgusted with her, just as I had been disgusted with her sister.

Hosea 2:5

For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.

Hosea 9:12

Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.

Leviticus 26:34

“‘Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.

Zephaniah 3:7

I thought, ‘Certainly you will respect me! Now you will accept correction!’ If she had done so, her home would not be destroyed by all the punishments I have threatened. But they eagerly sinned in everything they did.

Deuteronomy 32:29

I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”