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 4:18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
• Jer 2:19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
• Jer 2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Deut 28:15–68But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
• Ps 107:7And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
• Hos 13:9O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
• Ps 77:20Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
• Lev 26:15–46And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
• Deut 32:10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
• 2 Chr 7:19–20But if ye 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 78:53–54And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
• Ps 136:16To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
• Deut 32:19And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
• Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
• Job 4:8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
• 1 Chr 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
• Isa 63:11–14Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
• Num 32:23But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.

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