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| Jeremiah 2 Read This Chapter |
- 2:1
- The word of the Lord came to me:
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- 2:2
- "Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:
I remember the loyalty of your youth,
your love as a bride-
how you followed Me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.
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- 2:3
- Israel was holy to the Lord,
the firstfruits of His harvest.
All who ate of it found themselves guilty;
disaster came on them."[This is] the Lord's declaration.
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- 2:4
- Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacob
and all families of the house of Israel.
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- 2:5
- Here is what the Lord says:
What fault did your fathers find in Me
that they went so far from Me,
followed worthless idols,
and became worthless themselves?
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- 2:6
- They stopped asking: Where is the Lord
who brought us from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and ravines,
through a land of drought and darkness,
a land no one traveled through
and where no one lived?
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- 2:7
- I brought you to a fertile land
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled My land;
you made My inheritance detestable.
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- 2:8
- The priests quit asking: Where is the Lord?
The experts in the law no longer knew Me,
and the rulers rebelled against Me.
The prophets prophesied by Baal
and followed useless idols.
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- 2:9
- Therefore, I will bring a case against you again.[This is] the Lord's declaration.
I will bring a case against your children's children.
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- 2:10
- Cross over to Cyprus and take a look.
Send [someone] to Kedar and consider carefully;
see if there has ever been anything like this:
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- 2:11
- Has a nation [ever] exchanged its gods?
(but they were not gods! )
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.
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