| 1 | The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, | Jer 1:11 Jer 7:1 Jer 23:28 Ezk 7:1 Heb 1:1 2Pe 1:21 |
| 2 | Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. | Jer 7:2 Jer 11:6 Jer 19:2 Pr 1:20 Pr 8:1-4 Isa 58:1 Hos 8:1 Jon 1:2 Mt 11:15 Lk 12:13 |
| 3 | Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first-fruits of his increase: all who devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says Yahweh. | Ex 19:5 Ex 19:6 Dt 7:6 Dt 14:2 Dt 26:19 Zc 14:20 Zc 14:21 Eph 1:4 1Pe 2:9 |
| 4 | Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: | Jer 5:21 Jer 7:2 Jer 13:15 Jer 19:3 Jer 34:4 Jer 44:24-26 Isa 51:1-4 Hos 4:1 Mic 6:1 |
| 5 | thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? | Jer 2:31 Isa 5:3 Isa 5:4 Isa 43:22 Isa 43:23 Mic 6:2 Mic 6:3 |
| 6 | Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived? | Jer 2:8 Jer 5:2 Jg 6:13 2Ki 2:14 Jb 35:10 Ps 77:5 Isa 64:7 |
| 7 | I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. | Nm 13:27 Nm 14:7 Nm 14:8 Dt 6:10 Dt 6:11 Dt 6:18 Dt 8:7-9 Dt 11:11 Dt 11:12 Ne 9:25 Ezk 20:6 |
| 8 | The priests didn`t say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the law didn`t know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. | Jer 2:6 Jer 5:31 Jer 8:10 Jer 8:11 Jer 23:9-15 1Sa 2:12 Isa 28:7 Isa 29:10 Isa 56:9-12 Hos 4:6 |
| 9 | Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with your children`s children will I contend. | Jer 2:29 Jer 2:35 Isa 3:13 Isa 43:26 Ezk 20:35 Ezk 20:36 Hos 2:2 Mic 6:2 |
| 10 | For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing. | Gn 10:4 Gn 10:5 Nm 24:24 1Ch 1:7 1Ch 23:1 1Ch 23:12 Ps 120:5 Ezk 27:6 Dn 11:30 |
| 11 | Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. | Jer 2:5 Mic 4:5 1Pe 1:18 |
| 12 | Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says Yahweh. | Jer 6:19 Jer 22:29 Dt 32:1 Isa 1:2 Mic 6:2 Mt 27:45 Mt 27:50-53 |
| 13 | For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. | Jer 2:31 Jer 2:32 Jer 4:22 Jer 5:26 Jer 5:31 Ps 81:11-13 Isa 1:3 Isa 5:13 Isa 63:8 Mic 2:8 Mic 6:3 |
| 14 | Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey? | Ex 4:22 Isa 50:1 |
| 15 | The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant. | Jer 5:6 Jer 25:30 Jer 50:17 Jg 14:5 Jb 4:10 Ps 57:4 Isa 5:29 Hos 5:14 Hos 11:10 Hos 13:7 Hos 13:8 Am 3:4 Am 3:8 Am 3:12 Nah 2:11 |
| 16 | The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head. | 2Ki 18:21 2Ki 23:33 Isa 30:1-6 Isa 31:1-3 |
| 17 | Haven`t you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way? | Jer 2:19 Jer 4:18 Lv 26:15-46 Nm 32:23 Dt 28:15-68 Jb 4:8 Isa 1:4 Hos 13:9 |
| 18 | Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? | Jer 2:36 Jer 37:5-10 Isa 30:1-7 Isa 31:1 Lam 4:17 Ezk 17:15 Hos 7:11 |
| 19 | Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts. | Jer 2:17 Pr 1:31 Pr 5:22 Isa 3:9 Isa 5:5 Isa 50:1 Hos 5:5 |
| 20 | For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute. | Jer 30:8 Ex 3:8 Lv 26:13 Dt 4:20 Dt 4:34 Dt 15:15 Isa 9:4 Isa 10:27 Isa 14:25 Nah 1:13 |
| 21 | Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me? | Ex 15:17 Ps 44:2 Ps 80:8 Isa 5:1 Isa 5:2 Isa 60:21 Isa 61:3 Mt 21:33 Mk 12:1 Lk 20:9 Jn 15:1 |
| 22 | For though you wash you with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh. | Jb 9:30 Jb 9:31 |
| 23 | How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways; | Jer 2:34 Jer 2:35 Gn 3:12 Gn 3:13 1Sa 15:13 1Sa 15:14 Ps 36:2 Pr 28:13 Pr 30:12 Pr 30:20 Lk 10:29 Ro 3:19 1Jn 1:8-10 Rev 3:17 Rev 3:18 |
| 24 | a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. | Jer 14:6 Jb 11:12 Jb 39:5-8 |
| 25 | Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. | Jer 13:22 Dt 28:48 Isa 20:2-4 Lam 4:4 Hos 2:3 Lk 15:22 Lk 16:24 |
| 26 | As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets; | Jer 2:36 Jer 3:24 Jer 3:25 Pr 6:30 Pr 6:31 Isa 1:29 Ro 6:21 |
| 27 | who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. | Jer 10:8 Ps 115:4-8 Isa 44:9-20 Isa 46:6-8 Hab 2:18 Hab 2:19 |
| 28 | But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah. | Dt 32:37 Jg 10:14 2Ki 3:13 Isa 45:20 Isa 46:2 Isa 46:7 |
| 29 | Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh. | Jer 2:23 Jer 2:35 Jer 3:2 |
| 30 | In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. | Jer 5:3 Jer 6:29 Jer 6:30 Jer 7:28 Jer 31:18 2Ch 28:22 Isa 1:5 Isa 9:13 Ezk 24:13 Zep 3:2 Rev 9:20 Rev 9:21 Rev 16:9 |
| 31 | Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you? | Am 1:1 Mic 6:9 |
| 32 | Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. | Jer 2:11 Gn 24:22 Gn 24:30 Gn 24:53 2Sa 1:24 Ps 45:13 Ps 45:14 Isa 61:10 Ezk 16:10-13 1Pe 3:3-5 Rev 21:2 |
| 33 | How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways. | Jer 2:23 Jer 2:36 Jer 3:1 Jer 3:2 Isa 57:7-10 Hos 2:5-7 Hos 2:13-7 |
| 34 | Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things. | Jer 7:31 Jer 19:4 2Ki 21:16 2Ki 24:4 Ps 106:37 Ps 106:38 Isa 57:5 Isa 59:7 Ezk 16:20 Ezk 16:21 Ezk 20:31 |
| 35 | Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned. | Jer 2:23 Jer 2:29 Jb 33:9 Pr 28:13 Isa 58:3 Ro 7:9 |
| 36 | Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria. | Jer 2:18 Jer 2:23 Jer 2:33 Jer 31:22 Hos 5:13 Hos 7:11 Hos 12:1 |
| 37 | From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them. | 2Sa 13:19 |
