Jeremiah 2:27 Cross References

Jeremiah 2:27

27: To an image carved from a piece of wood they say, `You are my father.' To an idol chiseled out of stone they say, `You are my mother.' They turn their backs on me, but in times of trouble they cry out for me to save them!

Isaiah 26:16

  1. LORD, in distress we searched for you. We were bowed beneath the burden of your discipline.

Hosea 7:14

  1. They do not cry out to me with sincere hearts. Instead, they sit on their couches and wail. They cut themselves, begging foreign gods for crops and prosperity.

Jeremiah 22:23

  1. It may be nice to live in a beautiful palace lined with lumber from the cedars of Lebanon, but soon you will cry and groan in anguish--anguish like that of a woman about to give birth.

Judges 10:8

  1. who began to oppress them that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites east of the Jordan River in the land of the Amorites (that is, in Gilead).
  2. The Ammonites also crossed to the west side of the Jordan and attacked Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. The Israelites were in great distress.
  3. Finally, they cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you because we have abandoned you as our God and have served the images of Baal."
  4. The LORD replied, "Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
  5. the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites? When they oppressed you, you cried out to me, and I rescued you.

Jeremiah 2:24

  1. You are like a wild donkey, sniffing the wind at mating time. Who can restrain your lust? Those who desire you do not even need to search, for you come running to them!

Ezekiel 8:16

  1. Then he brought me into the inner courtyard of the LORD's Temple. At the entrance, between the foyer and the bronze altar, about twenty-five men were standing with their backs to the LORD's Temple. They were facing eastward, worshiping the sun!

Jeremiah 32:33

  1. My people have turned their backs on me and have refused to return. Day after day, year after year, I taught them right from wrong, but they would not listen or obey.

Isaiah 46:6

  1. 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!
  2. 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.
  3. "Do not forget this, you guilty ones.

Psalms 78:34

  1. When God killed some of them, the rest finally sought him. They repented and turned to God.
  2. Then they remembered that God was their rock, that their redeemer was the Most High.
  3. But they followed him only with their words; they lied to him with their tongues.
  4. Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant.

Psalms 115:4

  1. Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
  2. They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
  3. They cannot hear with their ears, or smell with their noses,
  4. or feel with their hands, or walk with their feet, or utter sounds with their throats!
  5. And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.

Jeremiah 18:17

  1. I will scatter my people before their enemies as the east wind scatters dust. And in all their trouble I will turn my back on them and refuse to notice their distress."

Ezekiel 23:35

  1. And because you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, says the Sovereign LORD, you must bear the consequences of all your lewdness and prostitution."

Jeremiah 10:8

  1. The wisest of people who worship idols are stupid and foolish. The things they worship are made of wood!

Habakkuk 2:18

  1. "What have you gained by worshiping all your man-made idols? How foolish to trust in something made by your own hands! What fools you are to believe such lies!
  2. How terrible it will be for you who beg lifeless wooden idols to save you. You ask speechless stone images to tell you what to do. Can an idol speak for God? They may be overlaid with gold and silver, but they are lifeless inside.

Isaiah 44:9

  1. 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.
  2. Who but a fool would make his own god--an idol that cannot help him one bit!
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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!

Hosea 5:15

  1. Then I will return to my place until they admit their guilt and look to me for help. For as soon as trouble comes, they will search for me."
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