Jeremiah 2:17
But it is [RHQ] because you abandoned me, Yahweh, that these disasters have happened to you.
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Leviticus 26:15and if you reject [DOU] my decrees and laws, and do not do [DOU] what I commanded you to do in the agreement that I made with you,
Deuteronomy 28:15But if you do not do what Yahweh our God is telling you to do, and if you do not faithfully obey all his rules and regulations that I am giving to you today, this is what he will do to curse you:
Deuteronomy 32:19“When Yahweh saw that they had abandoned him, he became angry, so he rejected the Israeli people, who are like his sons and daughters.
2 Chronicles 7:19“But if you Israelis turn away from me and disobey the decrees and commands that I have given to you, and you start to worship other gods,
Job 4:8What I have experienced is this: Just as [MET] farmers who plant bad seeds do not harvest good crops, just as those who start trouble for others, later bring trouble on themselves.
Psalms 77:20You led your people like a shepherd leads his flock of sheep, while Moses and Aaron were the leaders of your people.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:15-20
Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 14 Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he spoiled? 15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. 16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way? 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what… Read the whole commentary →