Jeremiah 2:27

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

that say to a tree, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast engendered me. They turned to me the back, and not the face; and in the time of their torment they shall say, Rise thou, and deliver us.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:6

Our fathers have sinned, and done evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and forsook him; they turned away their faces from the tabernacle of the Lord our God, and gave their back.

Isaiah 26:16

Lord, in anguish they sought thee; in the tribulation of grutching, thy doctrine to them.

Jeremiah 10:8

They shall be proved unwise and fools together; the teaching of their vanity is a tree.

Jeremiah 18:17

As a burning wind I shall scatter them before the enemy; I shall show to them the back and not the face, in the day of the perdition of them.

Jeremiah 2:24

A wild ass accustomable in wilderness, drew the wind of his love in the desire of his soul; no man shall turn away it. All that seek it, shall not fail; they shall find it in the flux of unclean blood thereof.

Jeremiah 22:23

and then thou that sittest in the Lebanon, and makest nest in cedars, shalt be shamed, and ashamed of all thy malice. How wailedest thou, when sorrows were come to thee, as the sorrow of a woman travailing of child?

Jeremiah 3:9

And by lightness of her fornication she defouled the earth, and did adultery with a stone, and with a tree.

Jeremiah 30:7

Woe! for that day is great, neither any is like it; and it is a time of tribulation to Jacob, and of him [he] shall be saved.

Jeremiah 32:33

And they turned to me the backs, and not the faces, when I taught, and informed them early; and they would not hear, that they should take teaching.

Jeremiah 37:3

And king Zedekiah sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremy, the prophet, and said, Pray thou for us our Lord God.

Jeremiah 42:2

And they said to Jeremy, the prophet, Our prayer fall in thy sight, and pray thou for us to thy Lord God, for all these remnants; for we be left a few of many, as thine eyes behold us;

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore the Lord God saith these things, For thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast forth me behind thy body, bear thou also thy great trespass and thy fornications.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he led me within, into the inner foreyard of the house of the Lord; and lo! in the door of the temple of the Lord, betwixt the porch and the altar, were as five and twenty men having their backs against the temple of the Lord, and their faces to the east; and they worshipped at the rising of the sun.

Daniel 9:7

Lord, rightfulness [or rightwiseness] is to thee, forsooth shame of face is to us, as is today to a man of Judah, and to the dwellers of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to these men that be nigh, and to these men that be afar in all lands, to which thou castedest them out for the wickednesses of them, in which, Lord, they sinned against thee.

Hosea 4:12

My people asked in his tree, and the staff thereof told to it; for the spirit of fornication deceived them, and they did fornication, going away from their God.

Hosea 5:15

I shall go, and turn again to my place, till ye fail, and seek my face. In their tribulation they shall rise early to me.

Hosea 7:14

And they cried not to me in their heart, but yelled in their beds. They chewed cud on wheat, and wine, and they went away from me.