Jeremiah 9:2 Cross References - CAB

² Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? For they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.

⁶ And I said, O, that I had wings as those of a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest. ⁷ Lo! I have fled afar off, and lodged in the wilderness. Pause. ⁸ I waited for Him that would deliver me from my distressed spirit, and from the tempest.

⁵ Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have dwelled among the tents of Kedar. ⁶ My soul has long been a sojourner; ⁷ I was peaceable among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.

⁷ In what way shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken Me, and sworn by them that are not gods. And I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses. ⁸ They became as wanton horses — each one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

¹ Righteous are You, O Lord, that I may make my defense to You: yet I will speak to You of judgments. Why is it that the way of the ungodly prospers? And all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?

⁶ For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of you. Do not trust in them, though they shall speak fair words to you.

¹⁰ For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course has become evil, and so also their strength.

¹⁰ In you they have uncovered the father's shame; and in you they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness. ¹¹ They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.

² Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery bound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

⁷ For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritage.

⁷ But they are as a man transgressing a covenant.

⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

¹ Alas for me! For I have become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as one gathering grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul! ² For the godly has perished from the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict everyone his neighbor. ³ They prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a reward, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul; ⁴ therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a rigid rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, your times of vengeance have come; now shall be their lamentations. ⁵ Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of your wife, so as not to commit anything to her. ⁶ For the son dishonors his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house shall be all a man's enemies. ⁷ But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Savior: my God will hearken to me.

⁴ Her prophets are insolent and scornful men: her priests profane the holy things, and sinfully transgress the law.

¹¹ Judah has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which He delighted in, and has gone after other gods.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.