The LORD’s word came to me, saying, Jer 23:28Ezk 7:1Heb 1:1Jer 1:11Jer 7:12Pe 1:21 “Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says, Ezk 16:60Ezk 16:8Jer 11:6Deu 2:7Deu 8:2Hos 2:15Isa 63:7-14Jer 7:2
“I remember for you the kindness of your youth,
your love as a bride,
how you went after me in the wilderness,
in a land that was not sown.
Israel was holiness to the LORD, Jas 1:18Rev 14:4Deu 7:6Exo 4:22-23Isa 41:11Rom 11:161Pe 2:9Deu 14:2
the first fruits of his increase.
All who devour him will be held guilty.
Evil will come on them,”’ says the LORD.”
Hear the LORD’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel! Hos 4:1Isa 51:1-4Jer 13:15Jer 19:3Jer 31:1Jer 33:24Jer 34:4Jer 44:24-26 The LORD says, 2Ki 17:15Rom 1:21Jer 10:14-15Jon 2:8Psa 115:81Sa 12:21Act 14:15Deu 32:21
“What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me,
that they have gone far from me,
and have walked after worthless vanity,
and have become worthless?
They didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Deu 32:10Deu 8:14-16Hos 13:4Isa 63:11-132Ki 2:14Exo 14:1-15Hos 12:13Isa 63:9
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 no one passed through,
and where no man lived?’
I brought you into a plentiful land Deu 8:7-9Jer 16:18Num 13:27Ezk 36:17Jer 3:1Jer 3:9Psa 106:38-39Deu 11:10-12
to eat its fruit and its goodness;
but when you entered, you defiled my land,
and made my heritage an abomination.
The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Hab 2:182Co 4:2Hos 4:6Jer 10:21Jer 5:31Rom 2:17-24Isa 29:10Isa 30:5
and those who handle the law didn’t know me.
The rulers also transgressed against me,
and the prophets prophesied by Baal
and followed things that do not profit.
“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the LORD, Ezk 20:35-36Exo 20:5Jer 2:35Mic 6:2Hos 2:2Isa 3:13Isa 43:26Jer 2:29
“and I will contend with your children’s children.
For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Psa 120:51Ch 1:71Ch 23:11Ch 23:121Co 5:1Dan 11:30Ezk 27:6Gen 10:4-5
Send to Kedar, and consider diligently,
and see if there has been such a thing.
Has a nation changed its gods, Rom 1:23Isa 37:19Jer 16:20Psa 106:20Mic 4:51Co 8:4Jer 2:8Psa 115:4
which really are no gods?
But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
“Be astonished, you heavens, at this Isa 1:2Deu 32:1Jer 22:29Jer 6:19Mic 6:2Mat 27:45Mat 27:50-53
and be horribly afraid.
Be very desolate,” says the LORD.
“For my people have committed two evils: Jhn 4:14Jhn 7:37Jer 17:13Rev 21:6Psa 36:9Rev 22:1Rev 22:17Isa 55:2
they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters,
and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
Is Israel a slave? Exo 4:22Ecc 2:7Gen 15:3Isa 50:1
Is he born into slavery?
Why has he become a captive?
The young lions have roared at him and raised their voices. Jer 4:7Jer 50:17Isa 1:7Isa 5:29Jer 9:11Amo 3:12Amo 3:4Amo 3:8
They have made his land waste.
His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head. Jer 46:14Jer 43:7-9Deu 33:20Isa 19:13Jer 44:1Ezk 30:162Ki 18:212Ki 23:33
“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, Jer 4:18Jer 2:19Jer 2:13Deu 28:15-68Deu 32:10Hos 13:9Lev 26:15-46Psa 107:7
in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, 1 when he led you by the way?
Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Jos 13:3Hos 7:11Isa 31:1Jer 2:362Ch 28:20-212Ki 16:7-9Ezk 17:15Hos 5:13
Or why do you go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? 2
“Your own wickedness will correct you, Isa 3:9Jer 2:17Jer 4:18Psa 36:1Hos 11:7Hos 5:5Amo 8:10Jer 5:6
and your backsliding will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing,
that you have forsaken the LORD your God,
and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, GOD 3 of Armies.
“For long ago I broke off your yoke, Deu 12:2Lev 26:13Jer 17:2Hos 3:3Isa 1:21Jer 30:81Ki 12:321Sa 12:10
and burst your bonds.
You said, ‘I will not serve;’
for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself,
playing the prostitute.
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, Isa 5:4Exo 15:17Jhn 15:1Psa 44:2Psa 80:8Deu 4:37Deu 32:32Gen 26:3-5
a pure and faithful seed.
How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
For though you wash yourself with lye, Jer 17:1Hos 13:12Job 14:17Jer 16:17Job 9:30-31Psa 130:3Psa 90:8Amo 8:7
and use much soap,
yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD.
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. Jer 7:31Pro 30:121Jn 1:8-101Sa 15:13-14Est 8:16Ezk 16:1-63Ezk 23:1-49Gen 3:12-13
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, a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. Jer 14:6Hos 5:15Jer 2:27Job 39:5-8Job 11:12
When she is in heat, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
“Keep your feet from being bare, Deu 32:16Jer 18:12Jer 3:13Rom 8:242Ch 28:22Deu 28:48Deu 29:19-20Isa 2:6
and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is in vain.
No, for I have loved strangers,
and I will go after them.’
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, Ezr 9:7Jer 32:32Neh 9:32-34Dan 9:6-8Isa 1:29Jer 2:36Jer 3:24-25Jer 48:27
so the house of Israel is ashamed—
they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ Isa 26:16Hos 7:14Ezk 23:35Ezk 8:16Hab 2:18-19Hos 5:15Isa 44:9-20Isa 46:6-8
and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’
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!’
“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Deu 32:37Jer 11:13Isa 45:20Jdg 10:142Ki 17:30-31Isa 46:72Ki 3:13Hos 10:1
Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble,
for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
“Why will you contend with me? Dan 9:11Jer 5:1Jer 6:13Jer 2:23Jer 2:35Jer 3:2Jer 9:2-6Rom 3:19
You all have transgressed against me,” says the LORD.
“I have struck your children in vain. Neh 9:261Th 2:15Act 7:52Isa 1:5Jer 26:20-24Jer 5:3Isa 9:13Jer 7:28
They received no correction.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets,
like a destroying lion.
Generation, consider the LORD’s word. 2Sa 12:7-9Deu 32:151Co 4:82Ch 31:10Amo 1:1Deu 31:20Deu 8:12-14Hos 13:6
Have I been a wilderness to Israel?
Or a land of thick darkness?
Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose.
We will come to you no more’?
“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Psa 106:21Jer 13:25Jer 2:11Jer 3:21Isa 17:10Hos 8:14Isa 61:10Psa 9:17
or a bride her attire?
Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
How well you prepare your way to seek love! Ezk 16:47Isa 57:7-102Ch 33:9Ezk 16:27Ezk 16:51-52Hos 2:5-7Jer 2:23Jer 2:36
Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.
Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. 2Ki 21:162Ki 24:4Jer 19:4Exo 22:2Ezk 16:20-21Ezk 20:31Ezk 24:7Isa 57:5
You didn’t find them breaking in,
but it is because of all these things.
“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Pro 28:131Jn 1:8-10Isa 58:3Jer 2:23Jer 2:29Jer 2:9Jer 25:31Job 33:9
Surely his anger has turned away from me.’
“Behold, I will judge you,
because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Why do you go about so much to change your ways? Jer 31:22Hos 5:132Ch 28:162Ch 28:20-21Hos 12:1Jer 2:23Ezk 29:7Hos 10:6
You will be ashamed of Egypt also,
as you were ashamed of Assyria.
You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; 2Sa 13:19Ezk 17:15-20Jer 17:5Jer 37:7-102Ch 13:12Isa 10:4Jer 2:36Jer 32:5
for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust,
and you won’t prosper with them.