Jeremiah 2:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Cross References

Psalm 129:1

Often have they attacked me from my youth —let Israel now say—

Exodus 14:31

Israel saw the great work that the Lord did against the Egyptians. So the people feared the Lord and believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

Exodus 16:8

And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and your fill of bread in the morning, because the Lord has heard the complaining that you utter against him—what are we? Your complaining is not against us but against the Lord.”

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom cries out in the street; in the squares she raises her voice.

Song of Solomon 3:11

come out and look at King Solomon, at the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.

Song of Solomon 3:6

Who is that coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

Isaiah 58:1

Shout out; do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 11:6

And the Lord said to me: Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

Jeremiah 19:2

and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.

Jeremiah 2:1

The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not say, “Where is the Lord, who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that no one passes through, where no one lives?”

Jeremiah 3:4

Have you not just now called to me, “My Father, you are the friend of my youth—

Jeremiah 7:2

Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah, you who enter these gates to worship the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:22

And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, flailing about in your blood.

Ezekiel 16:60

yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant.

Ezekiel 16:8

I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 23:19

Yet she increased her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

Ezekiel 23:3

they prostituted themselves in Egypt; they prostituted themselves in their youth; their breasts were caressed there, and their virgin bosoms were fondled.

Ezekiel 23:8

She did not give up her prostitutions that she had practiced since Egypt, for in her youth men had lain with her and fondled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.

Hosea 11:1

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

Hosea 2:15

From there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she shall respond as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Hosea 2:17

For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.

Hosea 2:7

She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, “I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.”

Hosea 8:1

Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have broken my covenant and transgressed my law.

Hosea 9:10

Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame and became detestable like the thing they loved.

Jonah 1:2

“Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

Matthew 11:15

Let anyone with ears listen!

Luke 12:13

Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.”

Deuteronomy 2:7

Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’

Deuteronomy 33:3

Indeed, O favorite among peoples, all his holy ones were in your charge; they marched at your heels, accepted direction from you.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.