Jeremiah 13:11

World Messianic Bible British Edition

For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says the LORD; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’

Cross References

Psalm 135:4

For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession.

Psalm 147:20

He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise the LORD!

Psalm 81:11

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Isaiah 43:21

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

Isaiah 62:12

They will call them “The Holy People, The LORD’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

Jeremiah 13:1

The LORD said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”

Jeremiah 13:10

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

Jeremiah 13:12

“Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘The LORD, the God of Israel says, “Every container should be filled with wine.”’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every container should be filled with wine?’

Jeremiah 19:15

“The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’”

Jeremiah 32:20

who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and amongst other men; and made yourself a name, as it is today;

Jeremiah 33:9

This city will be to me for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I provide to it.’”

Jeremiah 6:17

I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the shofar!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’

Jeremiah 7:13

Now, because you have done all these works,” says the LORD, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;

Jeremiah 7:23

but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Jeremiah 7:24

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:

Luke 10:11

‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

Deuteronomy 26:18

The LORD has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.

Deuteronomy 26:19

He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.

Deuteronomy 4:7

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as the LORD our God is whenever we call on him?

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.