Jeremiah 14:9

They ask why God seems powerless to help, yet affirm that He dwells among them and they bear His name, begging Him not to forsake them. Faith holds on to God's presence even when His help seems absent.

Cross-references · 21

• Isa 63:19We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
• Isa 59:1Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.
• Num 11:23The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”
• Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
• Ps 46:5God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
• Num 14:15–16If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
• Heb 13:5Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
• 2 Cor 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
• Dan 9:18–19Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
• Exod 29:45–46Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
• Isa 50:1–2This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
• Rev 21:3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
• Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
• Isa 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
• Jer 8:19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
• Deut 23:14For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.
• Lev 26:11–12And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
• Ps 44:23–26Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
• Ps 27:9Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
• Zech 2:5For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
• 1 Sam 12:22Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

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