Jeremiah 2:37

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.

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  • 2 Sam 13:19 : 19 And Tamar, in her grief, put dust on her head; and she put her hand on her head and went away crying loudly.
  • Jer 37:7-9 : 7 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me: See, Pharaoh's army, which has come out to your help, will go back to Egypt, to their land. 8 And the Chaldaeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire. 9 The Lord has said, Have no false hopes, saying to yourselves, The Chaldaeans will go away from us: for they will not go away. 10 For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.
  • Ezek 17:15-20 : 15 But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe? 16 By my life, says the Lord, truly in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he put on one side and let his agreement with him be broken, even in Babylon he will come to his death. 17 And Pharaoh with his strong army and great forces will be no help to him in the war, when they put up earthworks and make strong walls for the cutting off of lives: 18 For he put his oath on one side in letting the agreement be broken; and though he had given his hand to it, he did all these things; he will not get away safe. 19 And so the Lord has said, By my life, truly, for my oath which he put on one side, and my agreement which has been broken, I will send punishment on his head. 20 My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.
  • Num 14:41 : 41 And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?
  • 2 Chr 13:12 : 12 And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.
  • Isa 10:4 : 4 ... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
  • Jer 32:5 : 5 And he will take Zedekiah away to Babylon, where he will be till I have pity on him, says the Lord: though you are fighting with the Chaldaeans, things will not go well for you?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 2:36
    79%

    36 Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.

  • Jer 2:16-19
    4 verses
    76%

    16 Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.

    17 Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?

    18 And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?

    19 The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • Deut 28:20
    74%

    20 The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

  • Jer 17:5
    74%

    5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

  • Isa 30:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

    3 And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.

  • Jer 15:6
    73%

    6 You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.

  • Ps 44:9
    73%

    9 But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

  • Jer 13:25
    73%

    25 This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.

  • Deut 28:37
    72%

    37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

  • Isa 47:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.

    11 Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

  • Isa 22:17-19
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    72%

    17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

    18 Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!

    19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.

  • Jer 7:29
    72%

    29 Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.

  • Isa 36:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?

    6 See, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go into a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.

  • 2 Kgs 18:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 You say you have a design, and strength for war, but these are only words. Now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?

    21 See, now, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go through a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.

  • Isa 1:29
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    29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

  • Isa 30:12
    71%

    12 For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:

  • Jer 2:25
    71%

    25 Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

  • Jer 7:8
    71%

    8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

  • Lam 5:22
    71%

    22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

  • Nah 1:14
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    14 The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.

  • Jer 48:7
    71%

    7 For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.

  • Zeph 3:11
    71%

    11 In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.

  • Isa 37:22
    71%

    22 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.

  • Jer 23:39-40
    2 verses
    71%

    39 For this reason, truly, I will put you completely out of my memory, and I will put you, and the town which I gave to you and to your fathers, away from before my face:

    40 And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.

  • Jer 3:3
    71%

    3 So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.

  • Deut 28:29
    71%

    29 You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

  • Mic 2:10
    71%

    10 Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

  • Isa 37:11
    71%

    11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?

  • Mic 6:14
    71%

    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Deut 28:25
    71%

    25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Isa 31:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

    7 For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

  • Ezek 23:28
    70%

    28 For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will give you up into the hands of those who are hated by you, into the hands of those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust:

  • Hab 2:10
    70%

    10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.

  • Jer 42:19
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    19 The Lord has said about you, O last of Judah, Go not into Egypt: be certain that I have given witness to you this day.

  • 1 Sam 15:26
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    26 And Samuel said to Saul, I will not go back with you: for you have put away from you the word of the Lord, and the Lord has put you from your place as king over Israel.

  • Ps 73:27
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    27 For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

  • Jer 5:19
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    19 And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.

  • 2 Kgs 19:11
    70%

    11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse; and will you be kept safe?

  • Ps 89:39
    70%

    39 You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.