Jeremiah 2:2 Cross References - Thomson

² I remembered mercy in thy youth; and love, in thy mature age,

³¹ And when Israel saw that great hand; what the Lord had done to the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord, and they put confidence in God and in Moses his servant.

⁸ [Now Moses had dictated, by the Lord's giving you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread in plenty, because the Lord hath heard your murmurings which you utter against us. But as for us what are we? your murmuring is not against us but against God.]

³ So Moses came and told the people all the words of God and the rules of rectitude, and all the people with one voice answered and said, All the words which the Lord hath spoken we will perform and we will be obedient. ⁴ Then Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And rising early next morning Moses built an altar at the foot of the mount with twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; ⁵ and he sent out the young men of the children of Israel and they brought up whole burnt offerings and slew young bulls for a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord. ⁶ And Moses took half of the blood and poured it into bowls, and the other half of the blood he poured out against the altar. ⁷ Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do and we will be obedient. ⁸ Thereupon Moses took the blood and scattered it towards the people and said, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you touching all these words.

⁷ [for the Lord our God had blessed thee in all the works of thy hands.] Recollect how thou didst traverse that great and frightful wilderness. Behold! for forty years the Lord thy God was with thee. Thou wast not in want of any thing.

² and thou shalt keep in remembrance all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and prove thee, and know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or not.

¹⁵ who conducted you through that great and frightful wilderness, where there were biting serpents and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought a fountain of water for thee out of a flinty rock; ¹⁶ who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thou didst not know, and which was not known by thy fathers, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days.

¹² With a pillar of cloud thou didst guide them by day; and by night with a pillar of fire, to illumine the way for them in which they should go: ¹³ thou camest down also on mount Sina and didst speak to them from heaven, and give them right judgments and laws of truth and statutes and good commandments. ¹⁴ Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbaths and didst prescribe for them commandments and statutes and a law by the ministry of thy servant Moses. ¹⁵ "Thou gavest them also bread from heaven for their food, and didst bring water for them out of a rock for their thirst, ordering them to go in and take possession of the land which thou hadst stretched forth thy hand to give them. ¹⁶ But they, even our fathers, behaved proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments. ¹⁷ Though they refused to go in, and were unmindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; though they hardened their neck, and set up a head to return to their bondage in Egypt, yet thou who art a God merciful and gracious, long suffering and of great kindness, didst not forsake them utterly. ¹⁸ Even before this, though they made themselves a molten calf and said, These are the gods which brought us up out of Egypt, and committed great provocations; ¹⁹ yet thou through thy manifold mercies didst not leave them in the wilderness. Thou didst not withdraw from them by day the pillar of a cloud which was to guide them in the way, nor the pillar of fire, at night, which was to illumine the way for them in which they should go; ²⁰ but gavest thy good spirit to instruct them; and not withholding thy manna from their mouth, thou gavest them water when they were athirst. ²¹ Thus didst thou sustain them forty years in the wilderness, not suffering them to want any thing. Their clothes did not wear out, nor were their feet galled.

²⁰ Wisdom uttereth her song at the gates and in the streets speaketh boldly;

¹ As for thee thou art to proclaim wisdom; that understanding may attend thee. ² For she is on the lofty summits; and hath taken her stand in the middle of highways. ³ For at the gates of the mighty she hath taken a seat, and at the entrance thereof chanteth her song. ⁴ "To you, men, I call, and utter my voice to the sons of men.

¹¹ daughter of Sion go forth and view king Solomon; in the crown with which his mother crowned him; on the day of his espousals; Even on the day of the gladness of his heart.

¹ [J] CRY aloud and spare not; raise thy voice like a trumpet: proclaim to my people their sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities.

⁷ [c] I recollected the loving kindness of the Lord; the mercies of the Lord in all those things which he retributeth for us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel. He dealeth with us according to his tender mercy and according to the abundance of his saving goodness, ⁸ and said "Is not this my people? Children should not rebel." And he became their Saviour from all their distress. ⁹ It was not an ambassador nor a messenger; but he himself saved them. Through his love and his indulgence to them, he himself redeemed them and took them up, and exalted them all the days of old. ¹⁰ But they rebelled and provoked his holy spirit; so he became their enemy. He fought against them; ¹¹ though he remembered the days of old. O! where is he who caused the shepherd of his flock to come up out of the sea? Where is he, who put his holy spirit in them? ¹² That glorious arm of his which led Moses by the right hand? He forced back the water from before him, to make himself an everlasting name. ¹³ He led them through the deep, like a horse through a desert; and they were not fatigued: ¹⁴ and like cattle through a plain. A spirit from the Lord descended and conducted them. Thus thou .didst lead this people of thine, to make thyself a glorious name.

⁶ and did not say, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt; who led us through the wilderness; through a boundless and untrodden land; through a land without water and without fruit; through a land which no man traversed, and where no man had a fixed abode.

² Hear a word of the Lord, all ye of Judea!

⁶ Then the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem, and say, Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

² and go out to the common grave yard which is at the entrance of the gate Charseith and read there all these words which I shall speak to thee

⁸ Then I passed by thee and beheld thee and lo! thou wast of a marriageable age. So I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness; and sware to thee and entered into covenant with thee, saith the Lord.

²² [this exceeded all thy fornication] and didst not remember thy youth when thou wast naked and bare, when though polluted with thy blood thou didst live.

⁶⁰ when I remember my covenant made with thee in the days of thy youth and reestablish for thee an everlasting covenant;

³ who in their youth had committed whoredom in Egypt. There they were first deflowered.

⁸ yet she did not forsake her fornication with Egypt because they had lain with her in her youth and first deflowered her.

¹⁹ As thou hast multiplied thy whoredom, to call into remembrance the days of thy youth, in which thou didst play the harlot in Egypt,

¹⁵ And thence I will give her for her possessions, even the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be humbled there as in the days of her youth, even as in the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

¹ Because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law,

² "Arise and go to Ninive that great city and proclaim in it, That the cry of its wickedness is come up to me."

¹⁵ Whoever hath ears to hear let him hear.

¹³ When one in the crowd said to him, Teacher, order my brother to divide the inheritance with me;