Jeremiah 2

Treated in 28 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 2:13 For my people have committed two evils: they have abandoned me, the spring of living water, and cut out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water. 9
  • 2:5 The LORD says this: What did your ancestors find wrong in me, that they went so far from me, and went after worthless idols and became worthless themselves? 4
  • 2:32 Would a young woman forget her jewels, a bride the sash she wears? Yet my people have forgotten me days beyond counting. 2
  • 2:2 Go and call out so that Jerusalem hears: The LORD says this: I remember the loyal love of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, how you went after me through the wilderness, through a land where nothing was sown. 1
  • 2:6 They did not ask, "Where is the LORD, the one who brought us up from Egypt's land, who guided us in the wilderness, through a land of desert plains and pits, a land of drought and deep darkness, a land no one crosses and no one lives in?" 1
  • 2:18 So now, what do you gain by taking the road to Egypt to drink the waters of the Shihor? What do you gain by taking the road to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates? 1
  • 2:20 Long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your chains, and you said, "I will not transgress." Yet on every high hill and under every leafy tree you sprawled like a prostitute. 1
  • 2:21 I planted you as a choice vine, from seed that was wholly true. How then have you turned, before me, into the wild shoots of a strange vine? 1
  • 2:22 Even if you scrub yourself with washing soda and use soap in plenty, your guilt remains a stain before me, declares the Lord GOD. 1
  • 2:23 How can you say, "I have not made myself unclean, I have not gone after the Baals"? Look at your path in the valley; admit what you have done, you restless young she-camel, running this way and that! 1
  • 2:24 A wild donkey at home in the wilderness sniffs the wind in her longing. In her season of heat, who can turn her back? The males that seek her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her. 1
  • 2:25 Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry with thirst. But you said, "It is no use! No, I love strangers, and I will go after them." 1
  • 2:27 who call a tree "My father" and tell a stone, "You gave birth to us." They have turned their backs to me, not their faces; yet when trouble comes they say, "Rise up and save us!" 1
  • 2:28 Where then are the gods you made for yourself? Let them get up, if they can save you when trouble comes to you. For you have as many gods as you have towns, Judah. 1
  • 2:34 Even on the hems of your clothes is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor. You did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this, 1
  • 2:35 you said, "I am guiltless; his anger has surely left me." Now I will bring you to judgment because you say, "I have not sinned." 1

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Where it is preached

  1. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    Dealing with the Complaining cites Jer. ii. 5

    …people have treated him to the way in which God has treated him. For this purpose use Jer. ii. 5; Is. liii. 5; Romans v. 6‒8. Then ask him if the fact that Christians have treated him…

  2. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fourth Stage cites Jer. 2:6

    …Death, a land that no man” (but a Christian) “passeth through, and where no man dwelt.” Jer. 2:6. Now here Christian was worse put to it than in his fight with Apollyon, as by the sequel…

  3. At the Master's Feet · Sadhu Sundar Singh

    Prayer cites Jer. ii.13

    …of vanities (Eccles. xii.8), until men discover the true fountain of peace (Isa. lv.1; Jer. ii.13; Rev. xxii.17). 7. The world is like a mirage, and the truth seeker, hoping to find…

  4. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    December cites Jeremiah 2:2

    …a rival, and consecrate me entirely to thy service.” December 17 “I remember thee.” (Jeremiah 2:2) Let us note that Christ delights to think upon his Church, and to look upon her beauty.…

  5. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    Dealing with Those Who Lack Assurance and with Backsliders cites Jer. ii. 5

    …those who have no great desire to come back to the Saviour. With such persons use Jer. ii. 5, drive the question right home, “What iniquity have you found in the Lord?” Show them the…

  6. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Things That Cannot Be Shaken cites Jeremiah 2:5

    …went after worthlessness, and became worthless?” asks the Lord of the children of Israel (Jeremiah 2:5). “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living…

  7. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon IV cites Jer. ii. 5

    …iniquity have you found in me, that you have followed after vanity, and forsaken me?” Jer. ii. 5, 6. He calleth out as it were to the brutes, to hear the controversy he hath against you.…

  8. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

    All Are Commanded to Pray cites Jer. ii. 13

    …amuse yourselves by hewing out to yourselves “broken cisterns that can hold no water” (Jer. ii. 13). Come, hungry souls, who find nothing that can satisfy you, and you shall be filled.…

  9. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Prefatory Address to King Francis cites Jer. 2:13

    …reprimanded who “have hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water” (Jer. 2:13). Again, what more agreeable to faith than to feel assured that God is a propitious…

  10. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Thanksgiving Versus Complaining cites Jeremiah 2:13

    …and then complain because the “broken cisterns” we hewed for ourselves hold no water (Jeremiah 2:13). The Israelites complained about their food, fearing starvation, and then complained…

  11. The Key Teachings of Augustine of Hippo · Ochorus Originals

    Restless Until It Rests in Thee cites JEREMIAH 2:13

    …of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. JEREMIAH 2:13 Near the end of the tenth book Augustine gathers this up in one of the most beautiful…

  12. The Key Teachings of A. W. Tozer · Ochorus Originals

    The Church and the World cites JEREMIAH 2:13

    …of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. JEREMIAH 2:13 Tozer believed that many of the church’s leaders did not even notice what had happened…

  13. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    March cites Jer 2:13

    …of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”— Jer 2:13. “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.”— John 7:37. WHAT AN infinite…

  14. Real Questions – Book 3 · Ochorus Originals

    What Is Sin, Really? cites Jeremiah 2:13

    …water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water” (Jeremiah 2:13). Sin isn’t just bad. It’s a terrible trade. We swap the real thing for something that…

  15. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Thirst Relieved cites Jer. ii. 13

    …their hands, and growing grey in hewing out “broken cisterns which can hold no water” (Jer. ii. 13), have been obliged to come back at last to the old Fountain, and have confessed in their…

  16. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    July cites Jeremiah 2:18

    …20 “And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor?” (Jeremiah 2:18) By sundry miracles, by divers mercies, by strange deliverances Jehovah had proved…

  17. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.2 Repentance cites Jer 2: 20

    …she ran after her idols. ‘Under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.’ Jer 2: 20. [6] Leaving off some gross sin. (1) A man may leave off some sins, and keep others.…

  18. Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards · Jonathan Edwards

    A Strong Rod Broken and Withered cites Jer. ii. 21

    …and state is often elsewhere compared to a vine; as Psalm lxxx. 8, &c., Isai. v. 2, Jer. ii. 21, Ezek. xv., and chapter xvii. 6. 2. What is meant by her strong rods, viz., her wise…

  19. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of communion with Christ in holiness cites Jer. ii. 22

    …themselves with nitre, and take them much soap, yet their iniquity will continue marked,” Jer. ii. 22. Wherewith, then, shall they come before the Lord? For the removal of this, I say, they…

  20. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The worst things work for good to the godly cites Jer. ii. 23

    …God. They will take heaven as it were by storm. The wicked are swift dromedaries in sin (Jer. ii. 23). And do we creep like snails in religion? Shall impure sinners do the devil more service…

  21. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Ninth Stage cites Jer. 2:24

    …for it is with such as it is with the ass, who in her occasion cannot be turned away, Jer. 2:24: when their minds are set upon their lusts, they will have them, whatever they cost. But…

  22. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites Jer. 2.25

    …is no hopes for them; for they have loved sins, ‘therefore after them they will go’ (Jer. 2.25; 18.12). 26. Now therefore I went on in sin with great greediness of mind, still grudging…

  23. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.1 The First Commandment cites Jer 2: 27

    …God. ‘Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth.’ Jer 2: 27. (2) Joining a false god with a true. ‘They feared the Lord, and served their own gods.’…

  24. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 20 — Of Prayer cites Jer. 2:28

    …to the number of the cities (the charge which the prophet brought against Israel of old, Jer. 2:28; 11:13), but according to the number of individuals. But while the saints in all their…

  25. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Jer 2: 32

    …God’s oracles are ornaments, and shall we forget them? ‘Can a maid forget her ornaments?’ Jer 2: 32. (4) If God spake all these words, then believe them. See the name of God written upon…

  26. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Jer 2: 32

    …esteem are not easily forgotten. ‘Can a maid forget her ornaments or a bride her attire?’ Jer 2: 32. Did we prize the word more, we should not forget it so soon. If meat does not stay in…

  27. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites Jer 2: 34

    …more of killing men than sheep. ‘In thy skirts is found the blood of the poor innocents.’ Jer 2: 34. Junius reads it, in alis; and so in Hebrew, ‘in thy wings’ is found the blood of…

  28. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Confession cites Jer. ii. 35

    …saith the Lord, “I will plead with thee because thou sayest, I have not sinned.” (Jer. ii. 35.) “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1…