Jeremiah 2:31 · KJV
“O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? {We are...: Heb. We have dominion}”
— Jeremiah 2:31
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Can a maid forget her ornaments, {or} a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah 2 — Context
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? {We are...: Heb. We have dominion}
32Can a maid forget her ornaments, {or} a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered {with fatness}; then he forsook God {which} made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
2 Samuel 12:7-9
And Nathan said to David, Thou {art} the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
Malachi 3:9-11
Ye {are} cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, {even} this whole nation.
Deuteronomy 31:20
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Micah 6:9
The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and {the man of} wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. {the man...: or, thy name shall see that which is}
Revelation 3:15-17
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Nehemiah 9:21-25
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, {so that} they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Psalms 10:4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek {after God}: God {is} not in all his thoughts. {God is...: or, all his thoughts are, There is no God}