Yēlìmǐshū 2:17

17 Zhè shì líndào nǐ shēnshang , bú shì nǐ zì zhāo de ma . bú shì yīn Yēhéhuá nǐ shén yǐn nǐ xíng lù de shíhou , nǐ lí qì tā ma .

Yēlìmǐshū 2:17 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 2:17

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself
All this desolation and destruction, both from the Egyptians and the Babylonians; their sin was the cause of it, their idolatry and forsaking the Lord their God, as follows: and so the Targum,

``is not this vengeance taken upon thee?''

that is, by the Lord, for their sins and transgressions; he suffered these nations to make them desolate on that account: to which agrees the Septuagint version, "hath not he done these things unto thee?" for what the Egyptians and Babylonians did were done by the will of the Lord, who suffered them for their correction: and the Arabic version renders it, "have not I done these things unto thee?" and the Syriac as a prophecy, as indeed so is the whole, "lo, so it shall be done to thee"; as is predicted in the foregoing verses, and that for the following reason: in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God;
as in ( Jeremiah 2:13 ) , (See Gill on Jeremiah 2:13), that is, as the Targum interprets it, the worship of the Lord thy God, his service, his statutes, and his ordinances; and followed after idols, and the worship of them; which is aggravated by the circumstance of time in which this was done: when he led thee by the way?
who showed thee the right way, and thou walkedst not in it, as the Targum; the way in which they should have gone, the way of their duty, and his commandments; and which would have been pleasant and profitable to them, and secured them from ruin and destruction.

Yēlìmǐshū 2:17 In-Context

15 Shǎo zhuàng shīzi xiàng tā paó xiāo , dàshēng hǒu jiào , shǐ tāde dì huāngliáng . chéngyì yĕ dōu fùnshāo , wú rén jūzhù .

16 Nuó Fú rén hé dá bǐ nì rén yĕ dǎpò nǐde tóu dǐng .

17 Zhè shì líndào nǐ shēnshang , bú shì nǐ zì zhāo de ma . bú shì yīn Yēhéhuá nǐ shén yǐn nǐ xíng lù de shíhou , nǐ lí qì tā ma .

18 Xiànjīn nǐ wèihé zaì Āijí lù shang yào hē xī hé de shuǐ ne . nǐ wèihé zaì Yàshù lù shang yào hē dà hé de shuǐ ne .

19 Nǐ zìjǐ de è bì chéng zhì nǐ . nǐ bēi dào de shì bì zébeì nǐ . yóu cǐ kĕ zhī kĕ jiàn , nǐ lí qì Yēhéhuá nǐde shén , bú cún jìngwèi wǒde xīn , nǎi wèi è shì , wèi kǔ shì . zhè shì zhǔ wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá shuō de .