Jeremiah 2:2

New Living Translation

“Go and shout this message to Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says: “I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren wilderness.

Cross References

Psalm 129:1

From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this:

Exodus 14:31

When the people of Israel saw the mighty power that the Lord had unleashed against the Egyptians, they were filled with awe before him. They put their faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

Exodus 16:8

Then Moses added, “The Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening and bread to satisfy you in the morning, for he has heard all your complaints against him. What have we done? Yes, your complaints are against the Lord, not against us.”

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom shouts in the streets. She cries out in the public square.

Song of Solomon 3:11

Come out to see King Solomon, young women of Jerusalem. He wears the crown his mother gave him on his wedding day, his most joyous day.

Song of Solomon 3:6

Who is this sweeping in from the wilderness like a cloud of smoke? Who is it, fragrant with myrrh and frankincense and every kind of spice?

Isaiah 58:1

“Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast. Shout aloud! Don’t be timid. Tell my people Israel of their sins!

Jeremiah 11:6

Then the Lord said, “Broadcast this message in the streets of Jerusalem. Go from town to town throughout the land and say, ‘Remember the ancient covenant, and do everything it requires.

Jeremiah 19:2

Go out through the Gate of Broken Pots to the garbage dump in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, and give them this message.

Jeremiah 2:1

The Lord gave me another message. He said,

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us safely out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness— a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and death, where no one lives or even travels?’

Jeremiah 3:4

Yet you say to me, ‘Father, you have been my guide since my youth.

Jeremiah 7:2

“Go to the entrance of the Lord’s Temple, and give this message to the people: ‘O Judah, listen to this message from the Lord! Listen to it, all of you who worship here!

Ezekiel 16:22

In all your years of adultery and detestable sin, you have not once remembered the days long ago when you lay naked in a field, kicking about in your own blood.

Ezekiel 16:60

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

Ezekiel 16:8

And when I passed by again, I saw that you were old enough for love. So I wrapped my cloak around you to cover your nakedness and declared my marriage vows. I made a covenant with you, says the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 23:19

Yet she turned to even greater prostitution, remembering her youth when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:3

They became prostitutes in Egypt. Even as young girls, they allowed men to fondle their breasts.

Ezekiel 23:8

For when she left Egypt, she did not leave her spirit of prostitution behind. She was still as lewd as in her youth, when the Egyptians slept with her, fondled her breasts, and used her as a prostitute.

Hosea 11:1

“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt.

Hosea 2:15

I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope. She will give herself to me there, as she did long ago when she was young, when I freed her from her captivity in Egypt.

Hosea 2:17

O Israel, I will wipe the many names of Baal from your lips, and you will never mention them again.

Hosea 2:7

When she runs after her lovers, she won’t be able to catch them. She will search for them but not find them. Then she will think, ‘I might as well return to my husband, for I was better off with him than I am now.’

Hosea 8:1

“Sound the alarm! The enemy descends like an eagle on the people of the Lord, for they have broken my covenant and revolted against my law.

Hosea 9:10

The Lord says, “O Israel, when I first found you, it was like finding fresh grapes in the desert. When I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season. But then they deserted me for Baal-peor, giving themselves to that shameful idol. Soon they became vile, as vile as the god they worshiped.

Jonah 1:2

“Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are.”

Matthew 11:15

Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand!

Luke 12:13

Then someone called from the crowd, “Teacher, please tell my brother to divide our father’s estate with me.”

Deuteronomy 2:7

For the Lord your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these forty years, the Lord your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.”’

Deuteronomy 33:3

Indeed, he loves his people; all his holy ones are in his hands. They follow in his steps and accept his teaching.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands.

James 4:4

You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.

Revelation 2:4

“But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first!