Jeremiah 2
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2“ Go 1 “ I remember for you the kindness of your youth, 2 your love as a bride, 1 how you went after me in the wilderness, 2 in a land that was not sown. 1
3Israel 2 the first fruits of his increase. 1 All who devour him will be held guilty. 2 Evil will come on them,”’ says the LORD.”
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5The 1 “ What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, 2 that they have gone far from me, 1 and have walked after worthless vanity, 2 and have become worthless? 1
6They 2 who led us through the wilderness, 2 through a land of deserts and of pits, 2 through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, 2 through a land that no one passed through, 2 and where no man lived?’ 1
7I 2 to eat its fruit and its goodness; 1 but when you entered, you defiled my land, 2 and made my heritage an abomination. 1
8The 2 and those who handle the law didn’t know me. 1 The rulers also transgressed against me, 2 and the prophets prophesied by Baal 2 and followed things that do not profit. 1
9“ Therefore 2 “ and I will contend with your children’s children. 1
10For 2 Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, 2 and see if there has been such a thing. 1
11Has 2 which really are no gods? 2 But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit. 1
12“ Be 2 and be horribly afraid. 2 Be very desolate,” says the LORD. 1
13“ For 2 they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, 2 and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water. 1
14Is 2 Is he born into slavery? 2 Why has he become a captive? 1
15The 2 They have made his land waste. 2 His cities are burned up, without inhabitant. 2
16The 1
17“Haven’t you 2 in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, + 2:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “ אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim). when he led you by the way? 1
18Now 2 Or why do you go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? + 2:18 i.e., the Euphrates River 1
19“ Your 2 and your backsliding will rebuke you. 1 Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, 2 that you have forsaken the LORD your God, 2 and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, GOD + 2:19 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “ יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh). of Armies. 1
20“ For 2 and burst your bonds. 1 You said, ‘ I will not serve;’ 2 for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, 2 playing the prostitute. 1
21Yet 2 a pure and faithful seed. 2 How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me? 1
22For 2 and use much soap, 2 yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD. 1
23“ How 2 I have not gone after the Baals’? 1 See your way in the valley. 2 Know what you have done. 1 You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
24a 2 When she is in heat, who can turn her away? 2 All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her. 1
25“ Keep 2 and your throat from thirst. 1 But you said, ‘ It is in vain. 2 No, for I have loved strangers, 2 and I will go after them.’ 1
26As 2 so the house of Israel is ashamed— 2 they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, 1
27who 2 and a stone, ‘ You have given birth to me,’ 1 for they have turned their back to me, 2 and not their face, 2 but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘ Arise, and save us!’ 1
28“ But 2 Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble, 2 for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah. 1
29“ Why 2 You all have transgressed against me,” says the LORD. 1
30“ I 2 They received no correction. 1 Your own sword has devoured your prophets, 2 like a destroying lion. 1
31Generation 2 Have I been a wilderness to Israel? 2 Or a land of thick darkness? 1 Why do my people say, ‘ We have broken loose. 2 We will come to you no more’? 1
32“Can a 2 or a bride her attire? 2 Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number. 1
33How 2 Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways. 1
34Also 2 You didn’t find them breaking in, 2 but it is because of all these things. 1
35“ Yet 2 Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ 1 “ Behold, I will judge you, 2 because you say, ‘ I have not sinned.’ 1
36Why 2 You will be ashamed of Egypt also, 2 as you were ashamed of Assyria. 1
37You 2 for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, 2 and you won’t prosper with them.