Cross references

Jeremiah 2:27

say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’

and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’

They have turned their backs to Me

and not their faces.

Yet in the time of trouble, they say,

‘Rise up and save us!’

Jeremiah 2:27 BSB

Jeremiah 2:27 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 26:16 (6 votes) and Hosea 7:14 (3 votes). 44 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Judges 4 to Matthew 27.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 2:27 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.

  2. Hosea 7:143 votes

    They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

  3. who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites. The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress. …

  4. When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God. And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer. …

  5. Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; …

  6. All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame. Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing? …

  7. They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship. They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles. …

  8. a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

  9. But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

  10. I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

  11. Hosea 5:152 votes

    Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

Which verses point to Jeremiah 2:27?

The 10 strongest of 44.