Jeremiah 2:20

The Passion Translation

“Long ago, you broke your bond with me and severed ties. You boldly said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Yet, on every high hill and under every green tree, you offered yourself to other gods. You were like a prostitute sprawled out awaiting sex.

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:2

Your people have set up pagan altars to the goddess Asherah everywhere in your land—under large trees, on hills

Jeremiah 30:8

“In that day,” declares Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, “I will break off the yoke from your neck and snap your chains, and foreigners will no longer enslave you.

Isaiah 1:21

Look how the once faithful city has become as unfaithful as a prostitute! She who was once the “Center of Justice,” where righteousness made its home, is now the dwelling place of murderers!

Ezekiel 23:5

“Although Oholah was mine, she continued her prostitution. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

Ezekiel 20:28

When I had brought them into the promised land, they discovered all sorts of high hills and all kinds of spreading trees. That is where they offered sacrifices and made offerings to false gods that provoked my anger. That is where they burned incense and poured out drink offerings to false gods.

Ezekiel 16:41

They will burn down your homes and execute justice on you while many other women look on. I will once and for all put an end to your wicked harlotry—no more paid lovers for you!

Ezekiel 16:31

You built an elevated shrine on every street to worship idols, put up your pavilion in every public square. But you are not like a common prostitute just out for the money.

Ezekiel 16:28

Still unsatisfied, you prostituted yourself to the Assyrians and played the harlot with them. But even then, you were not satisfied.

Isaiah 14:25

I will crush the Assyrians who invade my land. I will trample them on my mountains. Their yoke of slavery will be removed from my people and their heavy burden from their shoulders.

Isaiah 10:27

In that day the Lord will remove the heavy burden from your shoulders and break off the yoke of bondage from your necks because of the heavy anointing upon you!

Isaiah 9:4

For you have broken the chains that have bound your people and lifted off the heavy bar across their shoulders, the rod the oppressor used against them. You have shattered all their bondage, just as you did when Midian’s armies were defeated.

Joshua 24:26

Joshua recorded all this in a book of divine instruction. Then he set up a large stone memorial at the tent pole near the holy place of Yahweh.

Joshua 24:24

And the people promised Joshua, “We really will worship and serve our God, Yahweh, and listen to his voice.”

Joshua 1:16

They answered Joshua: “We will do everything you have told us and will go wherever you send us.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls approached me and said, “Come, and I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits enthroned on many waters.

Psalm 107:14

His light broke through the darkness and he led us out in freedom from death’s dark shadow and snapped every one of our chains.

Jeremiah 2:31

“O people of this generation, see the word of Yahweh: Have I been like a wilderness to Israel or a dangerous land full of gloom? Then why do my people say, ‘We’re free to do as we want, and we have no intention of returning to serve you anymore.’

Jeremiah 3:13

Only admit your guilt! You have rebelled against Yahweh your God. You have lavished your love on foreign gods under every green tree. You have not listened to my voice. I, Yahweh, have spoken.’ ”

Jeremiah 5:5

Let me go to the people in power, and let me speak to them. Surely, they must know what Yahweh demands and what God requires of them.” Yet they, too, have renounced obedience to God and have torn themselves away from him.

Jeremiah 13:27

Woe to you, Jerusalem! I have seen your adulteries, your lustful neighing, your shameless prostitution, your vile acts on the hills and in the fields. How long will you continue being unclean?”

Judges 2:11

The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh and worshiped the images of Baal.

Judges 2:13

They completely abandoned Yahweh to serve Baal and the images of the goddess Astarte.

Judges 10:6

The Israelites again did evil in the sight of Yahweh, worshiping the Baals and the Ashtaroths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. Because Israel entirely abandoned the worship of Yahweh,

Psalm 2:3

“Let’s come together and break away from the Creator. Once and for all let’s cast off these controlling chains of God and his Christ!”