Jeremiah 2:17

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“Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?”

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BSBPD

“Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Dost thou not do this to thyself? <FI>By<Fi> thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 2:17 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
  2. Numbers 32:23But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.
  3. Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  4. Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
  5. Deuteronomy 32:19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
  6. 1 Chronicles 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
  7. 2 Chronicles 7:19But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
  8. 2 Chronicles 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
  9. Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
  10. Job 34:27because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways.
  11. Psalms 77:20You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
  12. Psalms 78:53He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
  13. Psalms 107:7He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
  14. Psalms 136:16He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.
  15. Proverbs 15:10Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
  16. Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
  17. Isaiah 59:13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
  18. Isaiah 63:11Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
  19. Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
  20. Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  21. Jeremiah 4:18“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
  22. Jeremiah 13:22And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
  23. Hosea 13:9You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me— against your helper.
  24. Micah 1:5All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

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