Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 2:1 (show verse)
The word of the Lord came to me:
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 2:2 (show verse)
“Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:
I remember the loyalty of your youth,
your love as a bride—
how you followed Me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.
your love as a bride—
how you followed Me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.
Jeremiah 2:3 (show verse)
the firstfruits of His harvest.
All who ate of it found themselves guilty;
disaster came on them.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 2:4 (show verse)
and all families of the house of Israel.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 2:5 (show verse)
that they went so far from Me,
followed worthless idols,
and became worthless themselves?
Jeremiah 2:6 (show verse)
who brought us from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and ravines,
through a land of drought and darkness,
a land no one traveled through
and where no one lived?”
Jeremiah 2:7 (show verse)
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled My land;
you made My inheritance
Jeremiah 2:8 (show verse)
The experts in the law no longer knew Me,
and the rulers
The prophets prophesied by
and followed useless idols.
Jeremiah 2:9 (show verse)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will bring a case against your children’s children.
Jeremiah 2:10 (show verse)
Send someone to Kedar
see if there has ever been anything like this:
Jeremiah 2:11 (show verse)
(But they were not gods!
Yet My people have exchanged their
for useless idols.
Jeremiah 2:12 (show verse)
be shocked and utterly appalled.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 2:13 (show verse)
They have abandoned Me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
Jeremiah 2:14 (show verse)
Was he born into slavery?
Why else has he become a prey?
Jeremiah 2:15 (show verse)
they have roared loudly.
They have laid waste his land.
His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
Jeremiah 2:16 (show verse)
have also broken your skull.
Jeremiah 2:17 (show verse)
by abandoning the Lord your God
while He was leading you along the way?
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 2:18 (show verse)
by traveling along the way to Egypt
to drink the waters of the Nile?
What will you gain
by traveling along the way to Assyria
to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Jeremiah 2:19 (show verse)
your own apostasies will reprimand you.
Think it over and see how evil and bitter
for you to abandon the Lord your God
and to have no fear of Me.
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.
Jeremiah 2:20 (show verse)
I
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree
you lie down like a prostitute.
Jeremiah 2:21 (show verse)
from the very best seed.
How then could you turn into
a degenerate, foreign vine?
Jeremiah 2:22 (show verse)
and use a great amount of soap,
the stain of your sin is still in front of Me.
This is the Lord God’s declaration.
Jeremiah 2:23 (show verse)
I have not followed the Baals”?
Look at your behavior in the valley;
acknowledge what you have done.
You are a swift young camel
twisting and turning on her way,
Jeremiah 2:24 (show verse)
She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire.
Who can control her passion?
All who look for her will not become tired;
they will find her in her mating season.
Jeremiah 2:25 (show verse)
and your throat from thirst.
But you say, “It’s hopeless;
I love strangers,
and I will continue to follow them.”
Jeremiah 2:26 (show verse)
so the house of Israel has been put to shame.
They, their kings, their officials,
their priests, and their prophets
Jeremiah 2:27 (show verse)
and to a stone, “You gave birth to me.”
For they have turned their back to Me
and not their face,
yet in their time of disaster
“Rise up and save us!”
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 2:28 (show verse)
Let them rise up and save you
in your time of disaster if they can,
for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah.
Jeremiah 2:29 (show verse)
All of you have rebelled against Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 2:30 (show verse)
they would not accept discipline.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets
like a ravaging lion.
Jeremiah 2:31 (show verse)
pay attention to the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of dense darkness?
Why do My people claim,
“We will go where we want;
we will no longer come to You”?
Jeremiah 2:32 (show verse)
or a bride her wedding sash?
Yet My people have forgotten Me
for countless days.
Jeremiah 2:33 (show verse)
you also teach evil women your ways.
Jeremiah 2:34 (show verse)
with the blood of the innocent poor.
You did not catch them breaking and entering.
But in spite of all these things
Jeremiah 2:35 (show verse)
His anger is sure to turn away from me.”
But I will certainly judge you
because you have said, “I have not sinned.”
Jeremiah 2:36 (show verse)
constantly changing your ways!
You will be put to shame by Egypt
just as you were put to shame by Assyria.
Jeremiah 2:37 (show verse)
with your hands on your head
since the Lord has rejected those you trust;
you will not succeed even with their help.