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Jeremiah Chapter 2

Geneva1599
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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 2

1Moreover, the woorde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
Jeremiah 23:28, Jeremiah 23:28, Ezekiel 7:1, 2 Peter 1:21, Hebrews 1:1
2Goe, and crie in the eares of Ierusalem, saying, Thus sayeth the Lord, I remember thee, with the kindenes of thy youth and the loue of thy marriage, when thou wentest after me in the wildernes in a lande that was not sowen.
Ezekiel 16:60, Ezekiel 16:60, Ezekiel 16:8, Ezekiel 16:8, Jeremiah 11:6
3Israel was as a thing halowed vnto the Lord, and his first fruits: all they that eat it, shall offend: euil shall come vpon them, saith the Lord.
Revelation 14:4, James 1:18, Revelation 14:4, James 1:18, Isaiah 41:11
4Heare ye the word of the Lord, O house of Iaakob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
Jeremiah 33:24, Isaiah 51:1, Isaiah 51:4, Jeremiah 5:21, Jeremiah 34:4
5Thus sayeth the Lord, What iniquitie haue your fathers founde in mee, that they are gone farre from mee, and haue walked after vanitie, and are become vaine?
2 Kings 17:15, 2 Kings 17:15, Romans 1:21, Romans 1:21, Jonah 2:8
6For they saide not, Where is the Lord that brought vs vp out of the lande of Egypt? that led vs through the wildernesse, through a desert, and waste land, through a drie land, and by the shadow of death, by a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Deuteronomy 32:10, Deuteronomy 32:10, Hosea 13:4, Hosea 13:4, Isaiah 63:11
7And I brought you into a plentifull countrey, to eat the fruit thereof, and the commodities of the same: but when yee entred, yee defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
Deuteronomy 8:7, Deuteronomy 8:9, Deuteronomy 8:7, Deuteronomy 8:9, Jeremiah 16:18
8The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that should minister the Lawe, knewe me not: the pastours also offended against me, and the Prophets prophesied in Baal, and went after things that did not profite.
Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:18, Jeremiah 5:31, Jeremiah 10:21, Jeremiah 5:31
9Wherefore I wil yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and I will pleade with your childrens children.
Ezekiel 20:35, Ezekiel 20:36, Ezekiel 20:35, Ezekiel 20:36, Jeremiah 2:35
10For goe ye to the yles of Chittim, and beholde, and sende vnto Kedar. and take diligent heede, and see whether there be such things.
Psalms 120:5, Psalms 120:5, 1 Corinthians 5:1, Ezekiel 27:6, 1 Chronicles 1:7
11Hath any nation changed their gods, which yet are no gods? but my people haue chaged their glorie, for that which doeth not profite.
Romans 1:23, Romans 1:23, Isaiah 37:19, Isaiah 37:19, Jeremiah 16:20
12O yee heauens, be astonied at this: bee afraid and vtterly confounded, sayeth the Lord.
Isaiah 1:2, Isaiah 1:2, Jeremiah 22:29, Jeremiah 6:19, Micah 6:2
13For my people haue committed two euils: they haue forsaken mee the fountaine of liuing waters, to digge them pittes, euen broken pittes, that can holde no water.
John 4:14, John 4:14, John 7:37, John 7:37, Revelation 21:6
14Is Israel a seruaunt, or is hee borne in the house? why then is he spoiled?
Exodus 4:22, Exodus 4:22, Genesis 15:3, Isaiah 50:1, Ecclesiastes 2:7
15The lions roared vpon him and yelled, and they haue made his land waste: his cities are burnt without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 50:17, Isaiah 1:7
16Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes haue broken thine head.
Jeremiah 46:14, Jeremiah 46:14, Jeremiah 43:7, Jeremiah 43:9, Jeremiah 43:7
17Hast not thou procured this vnto thy selfe, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Jeremiah 4:18, Jeremiah 4:18, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 2:13
18And what hast thou now to do in the way of Egypt? to drinke the water of Nilus? or what makest thou in the way of Asshur? to drinke the water of the Riuer?
Joshua 13:3, Joshua 13:3, Hosea 7:11, Isaiah 31:1, Jeremiah 2:36
19Thine owne wickednes shall correct thee, and thy turnings backe shall reprooue thee: know therefore and beholde, that it is an euil thing, and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my feare is not in thee, sayeth the Lord God of hostes.
Isaiah 3:9, Isaiah 3:9, Psalms 36:1, Jeremiah 4:18, Jeremiah 2:17
20For of olde time I haue broken thy yoke, and burst thy bondes, and thou saidest, I will no more transgresse, but like an harlot thou runnest about vpon al hie hilles, and vnder all greene trees.
Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:2, Leviticus 26:13, Leviticus 26:13, Jeremiah 17:2
21Yet I had planted thee, a noble vine, whose plants were all natural: howe then art thou turned vnto me into the plants of a strange vine?
Isaiah 5:4, Isaiah 5:4, Exodus 15:17, Exodus 15:17, Psalms 44:2
22Though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquitie is marked before me, sayeth the Lord God.
Jeremiah 17:1, Jeremiah 17:1, Job 14:17, Job 14:17, Hosea 13:12
23Howe canst thou say, I am not polluted, neither haue I followed Baalim? beholde thy waies in the valley, and know, what thou hast done: thou art like a swift dromedarie, that runneth by his waies.
Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 7:31, Proverbs 30:12, Proverbs 30:12, Isaiah 57:5
24And as a wilde asse, vsed to the wildernesse, that snuffeth vp the winde by occasion at her pleasure: who can turne her backe? all they that seeke her, will not wearie themselues, but wil finde her in her moneth.
Jeremiah 14:6, Jeremiah 14:6, Hosea 5:15, Job 39:5, Job 39:8
25Keepe thou thy feete from barenes, and thy throte from thirst: but thou saidest desperately, No, for I haue loued strangers, and them will I follow.
Deuteronomy 32:16, Deuteronomy 32:16, Jeremiah 3:13, Jeremiah 18:12, Jeremiah 3:13
26As the theefe is ashamed, when he is foud, so is the house of Israel ashamed, they, their kings, their princes and their Priests, and their Prophets,
Nehemiah 9:32, Nehemiah 9:34, Ezra 9:7, Jeremiah 32:32, Nehemiah 9:32
27Saying to a tree, Thou art my father, and to a stone, Thou hast begotten me: for they haue turned their back vnto me, and not their face: but in ye time of their troble they wil say, Arise, and help vs.
Isaiah 26:16, Isaiah 26:16, Hosea 7:14, Hosea 7:14, Judges 10:8
28But where are thy gods, that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can helpe thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the nomber of thy cities, are thy gods, O Iudah.
Jeremiah 11:13, Jeremiah 11:13, Isaiah 45:20, Deuteronomy 32:37, Isaiah 45:20
29Wherefore wil ye pleade with me? ye all haue rebelled against me, sayeth the Lord.
Jeremiah 6:13, Daniel 9:11, Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 6:13, Daniel 9:11
30I haue smitten your children in vaine, they receiued no correction: your owne sworde hath deuoured your Prophets like a destroying lyon.
Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:26, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, Acts 7:52, 1 Thessalonians 2:15
31O generation, take heede to the worde of the Lord: haue I bene as a wildernesse vnto Israel? or a lande of darkenesse? Wherefore sayeth my people then, We are lordes, we will come no more vnto thee?
Deuteronomy 32:15, 2 Samuel 12:7, 2 Samuel 12:9, Deuteronomy 32:15, 2 Samuel 12:7
32Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? yet my people haue forgotten me, daies without number.
Psalms 106:21, Psalms 106:21, Jeremiah 13:25, Jeremiah 3:21, Jeremiah 2:11
33Why doest thou prepare thy way, to seeke amitie? euen therefore will I teach thee, that thy waies are wickednesse.
Isaiah 57:7, Isaiah 57:10, Isaiah 57:7, Isaiah 57:10, 2 Chronicles 33:9
34Also in thy wings is founde the bloud of the soules of ye poore innocents: I haue not found it in holes, but vpon all these places.
2 Kings 21:16, 2 Kings 21:16, 2 Kings 24:4, Jeremiah 19:4, 2 Kings 24:4
35Yet thou saiest, Because I am giltles, surely his wrath shall turne from mee: beholde, I will enter with thee into iudgement, because thou saiest, I haue not sinned.
Proverbs 28:13, Proverbs 28:13, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10, 1 John 1:8
36Why runnest thou about so much to change thy waies? for thou shalt be confounded of Egypt, as thou art confounded of Asshur.
Jeremiah 31:22, Jeremiah 31:22, Hosea 5:13, Hosea 5:13, Hosea 12:1
37For thou shalt goe foorth from thence, and thine hands vpon thine head, because the Lord hath reiected thy confidence, and thou shalt not prosper thereby.
2 Samuel 13:19, 2 Samuel 13:19, Ezekiel 17:15, Ezekiel 17:20, Jeremiah 17:5

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