Jeremiah 2:17

God says Israel brought this ruin on itself by forsaking Him. Their suffering flows from their own choices.

Cross-references · 18

• Jer 4:18“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
• Jer 2:19“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
• Jer 2:13“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Deut 28:15–68But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.
• Ps 107:7he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.
• Hos 13:9You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.
• Ps 77:20You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
• Lev 26:15–46and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
• Deut 32:10He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
• 2 Chr 7:19–20But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
• Ps 78:53–54He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
• Ps 136:16To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:
• Deut 32:19Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
• Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
• Job 4:8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• Isa 63:11–14Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
• Num 32:23“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

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