Jeremiah 2:27

The Scriptures 1998

saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face. But in the time of their calamity they say, ‘Arise and save us.’

Cross References

Isaiah 26:16

O יהוה, in distress they shall visit You, they shall pour out a prayer when Your disciplining is upon them.

Hosea 7:14

and did not cry out to Me with their heart when they wailed upon their beds. For grain and new wine they assemble themselves; they turn away from Me.

Hosea 5:15

“I shall go, I shall return to My place, until they confess their guilt and seek My face, in their distress diligently search for Me, and say,

Ezekiel 23:35

“Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore you shall bear your wickedness and your whorings.’ ”

Ezekiel 8:16

And He brought me into the inner court of the House of יהוה. And there, at the door of the Hĕ

Jeremiah 32:33

“And they have turned their back to Me, and not their face – though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, they did not listen to receive instruction.

Jeremiah 22:23

“You who dwell in Leḇ

Jeremiah 18:17

“I shall scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I shall show them the back and not the face in the day of their calamity.”

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both brutish and foolish, an instruction of worthlessness is the tree.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild donkey used to the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the desire of her being – in her time of mating, who turns her away? All those who seek her need not weary themselves; in her month they find her.

Jeremiah 3:9

“And it came to be, through her frivolous whoring, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and wood.

Jeremiah 30:7

‘Oh! For great is that day, there is none like it. And it is the time of Yaʽ

Jeremiah 37:3

And Tsiḏ

Daniel 9:7

“O יהוה, to You is the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as it is this day – to the men of Yehuḏ

Hosea 4:12

“My people ask from their Wood, and their Staff declares to them. For a spirit of whorings has led them astray, and they went whoring from under their Elohim.

2 Chronicles 29:6

“For our fathers have trespassed and have done evil in the eyes of יהוה  our Elohim, and have forsaken Him, and have turned their faces away from the Dwelling Place of יהוה, and have given their backs.

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to Yirmeyahu the prophet, “We beg you, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to יהוה  your Elohim, for all this remnant, for we are few left of many, as your eyes see us.