Jeremiah 9:2

Jeremiah wishes he could flee to the wilderness to escape a people who are all adulterers and traitors. Their pervasive faithlessness makes fellowship unbearable.

Cross-references · 15

• Jer 23:10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;
• Jer 5:7–8“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.
• Hos 4:2There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
• Jer 12:6For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
• Hos 7:4They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
• Jer 12:1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Zeph 3:4Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
• Ps 55:6–8I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
• Mic 7:1–7Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
• Jas 4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
• Ps 120:5–7Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
• Ezek 22:10–11In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
• Hos 6:7But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
• Hos 5:7They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
• Mal 2:11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

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