Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

Cross-reference

Jeremiah 5:7 also accuses Israel of adultery and idolatry, reinforcing the land's corruption in 23:10.

Jeremiah 5:8 uses horse imagery for sexual lust, expanding on the adultery mentioned in 23:10.

Jeremiah 7:9 lists adultery among other sins, showing the moral decay that Jeremiah condemns in 23:10.

Jeremiah 9:2 echoes 'adulterers' and expresses the desire to flee from corruption, similar to 23:10's lament.

Jeremiah 12:4 directly repeats the image of the land mourning and grass drying due to wickedness, reinforcing the curse.

Jeremiah 4:28 also declares the earth will mourn as part of God's irreversible judgment, directly echoing.

Jeremiah 12:11 uses the same image of the land mourning in desolation due to sin, reinforcing the judgment theme here.

Jeremiah 9:10 laments the desolate wilderness and missing animals, echoing the dried pastures.

Jeremiah 14:2 describes Judah mourning and cities languishing, similar to the land's mourning over judgment.

Isaiah 24:6 Parallel

Isaiah 24:6 says a curse consumes the earth due to guilt, paralleling the curse causing the land to mourn.

Hebrews 13:4 warns that God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous, directly reinforcing the judgment on adultery Jeremiah mentions.

Zechariah 5:3 speaks of a curse going out over the whole land for stealing and false swearing, mirroring the cursed land in Jeremiah.

Joel 1:10 Parallel

Joel 1:10 uses identical language of the ground mourning and crops failing due to divine judgment.

Hosea 4:3 Parallel

Hosea 4:3 uses the same 'land mourns' imagery for sin—here tied to Israel's unfaithfulness, echoing Jeremiah's curse on adulterers.

Hosea 4:2 Parallel

Hosea 4:2 lists adultery alongside other sins, echoing the land's corruption in Jeremiah 23:10.

Ezekiel 22:9-11 catalogues sexual sins including adultery, paralleling the adultery mentioned in Jeremiah 23:10.

Psalm 107:34 states that fruitful land becomes salt waste because of wickedness, directly mirroring the curse.

Zechariah 5:4 describes the curse consuming houses, a specific consequence similar to Jeremiah's land mourning from the curse.

Malachi 3:5 Parallel

Malachi 3:5 lists adulterers among those God will swiftly judge, reinforcing the divine consequence for the adultery Jeremiah describes.

1 Corinthians 6:9 explicitly names adulterers as excluded from God's kingdom, a NT parallel to the condemnation in Jeremiah.

Galatians 5:19-21 lists sexual immorality among works of the flesh that bar inheritance, echoing the sinful behavior in Jeremiah.

James 4:4 Parallel

James 4:4 uses 'adulterous' metaphorically for spiritual unfaithfulness, paralleling the unfaithfulness in Jeremiah but with a different sense.