Jeremiah 2:13 Cross References
Jeremiah 2:13
13: For my people have done two evil things: They have forsaken me--the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!
John 4:14
- But the water I give them takes away thirst altogether. It becomes a perpetual spring within them, giving them eternal life."
Psalms 36:9
- For you are the fountain of life, the light by which we see.
Jeremiah 17:13
- O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who turn away from you will be disgraced and shamed. They will be buried in a dry and dusty grave, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Revelation 22:1
- And the angel showed me a pure river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Revelation 21:6
- And he also said, "It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega--the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give the springs of the water of life without charge!
John 7:37
- On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, "If you are thirsty, come to me!
Isaiah 55:2
- Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen, and I will tell you where to get food that is good for the soul!
Revelation 22:17
- The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." Let each one who hears them say, "Come." Let the thirsty ones come--anyone who wants to. Let them come and drink the water of life without charge.
Jeremiah 4:22
- "My people are foolish and do not know me," says the LORD. "They are senseless children who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no talent at all for doing right!"
Psalms 81:11
- "But no, my people wouldn't listen. Israel did not want me around.
- So I let them follow their blind and stubborn way, living according to their own desires.
- But oh, that my people would listen to me! Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths!
Jeremiah 2:11
- Has any nation ever exchanged its gods for another god, even though its gods are nothing? Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols!
Jeremiah 2:31
- "O my people, listen to the words of the LORD! Have I been like a desert to Israel? Have I been to them a land of darkness? Why then do my people say, `At last we are free from God! We won't have anything to do with him anymore!'
- Does a young woman forget her jewelry? Does a bride hide her wedding dress? No! Yet for years on end my people have forgotten me.
Jeremiah 2:17
- And you have brought this on yourselves by rebelling against the LORD your God when he wanted to lead you and show you the way!
Ecclesiastes 2:11
- But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless. It was like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.
Isaiah 46:6
- Some people pour out their silver and gold and hire a craftsman to make a god from it. Then they bow down and worship it!
- They carry it around on their shoulders, and when they set it down, it stays there. It cannot even move! And when someone prays to it, there is no answer. It has no power to get anyone out of trouble.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
- God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to those who please him. But if a sinner becomes wealthy, God takes the wealth away and gives it to those who please him. Even this, however, is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
2 Peter 2:17
- These people are as useless as dried-up springs of water or as clouds blown away by the wind--promising much and delivering nothing. They are doomed to blackest darkness.
Jeremiah 1:16
- I will pronounce judgment on my people for all their evil--for deserting me and worshiping other gods. Yes, they worship idols that they themselves have made!
Isaiah 44:9
- How foolish are those who manufacture idols to be their gods. These highly valued objects are really worthless. They themselves are witnesses that this is so, for their idols neither see nor know. No wonder those who worship them are put to shame.
- Who but a fool would make his own god--an idol that cannot help him one bit!
- All who worship idols will stand before the LORD in shame, along with all these craftsmen--mere humans--who claim they can make a god. Together they will stand in terror and shame.
- The blacksmith stands at his forge to make a sharp tool, pounding and shaping it with all his might. His work makes him hungry and thirsty, weak and faint.
- Then the wood-carver measures and marks out a block of wood, takes the tool, and carves the figure of a man. Now he has a wonderful idol that cannot even move from where it is placed!
Psalms 115:4
- Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
- They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
- They cannot hear with their ears, or smell with their noses,
- or feel with their hands, or walk with their feet, or utter sounds with their throats!
- And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.
Jeremiah 5:31
- the prophets give false prophecies, and the priests rule with an iron hand. And worse yet, my people like it that way! But what will you do when the end comes?
Ecclesiastes 1:2
- "Everything is meaningless," says the Teacher, "utterly meaningless!"
Psalms 146:3
- Don't put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there.
- When their breathing stops, they return to the earth, and in a moment all their plans come to an end.
1 Samuel 12:10
- "Then they cried to the LORD again and confessed, `We have sinned by turning away from the LORD and worshiping the images of Baal and Ashtoreth. But we will worship you and you alone if you will rescue us from our enemies.'
Ecclesiastes 1:14
- Everything under the sun is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
Isaiah 1:3
- Even the animals--the donkey and the ox--know their owner and appreciate his care, but not my people Israel. No matter what I do for them, they still do not understand."
Isaiah 63:8
- He said, "They are my very own people. Surely they will not be false again." And he became their Savior.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
- Then I observed that most people are motivated to success by their envy of their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
Judges 10:13
- Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. So I will not rescue you anymore.
Jeremiah 15:6
- You have forsaken me and turned your back on me," says the LORD. "Therefore, I will raise my clenched fists to destroy you. I am tired of always giving you another chance.
Isaiah 5:13
- So I will send my people into exile far away because they do not know me. The great and honored among them will starve, and the common people will die of thirst.
Jeremiah 5:26
- "Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind. They are continually setting traps for other people.
Micah 6:3
- O my people, what have I done to make you turn from me? Tell me why your patience is exhausted! Answer me!
Jeremiah 18:14
- Does the snow ever melt high up in the mountains of Lebanon? Do the cold, flowing streams from the crags of Mount Hermon ever run dry?
Ecclesiastes 2:21
- For though I do my work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, I must leave everything I gain to people who haven't worked to earn it. This is not only foolish but highly unfair.
Micah 2:8
- Yet to this very hour my people rise against me! You steal the shirts right off the backs of those who trusted you, making them as ragged as men who have just come home from battle.
Jeremiah 2:26
- "Like a thief, Israel feels shame only when she gets caught. Kings, officials, priests, and prophets--all are alike in this.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
- "All is meaningless," says the Teacher, "utterly meaningless."