Jeremiah 2:5
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This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.
Read Jeremiah 2:5 Using Other Translations
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
This is what the LORD says: “What did your ancestors find wrong with me that led them to stray so far from me? They worshiped worthless idols, only to become worthless themselves.
What does Jeremiah 2:5 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Jeremiah 2:5
from my fear, as the Chaldee paraphrase; from the word and worship, and ways of God: and have walked after vanity;
after idols, the vanities of the Gentiles, ( Jeremiah 14:22 ) : and are become vain?
in their imaginations and in their actions, in their knowledge and in their practice, worshipping idols, as well as guilty of many other sins.
Thus saith the Lord, what iniquity have your fathers found
in
me
What injustice or injury has been done them? there is no
unrighteousness in God, nor can any be done by him; or what
unfaithfulness, or want of truth and integrity in performing
promises, had they found in him? he never suffers his
faithfulness to fail, or any of the good things he has promised.
So the Targum,
``what falsehood have your fathers found in my word?''none at all; God is a covenant keeping God: that they are gone far from me;
from my fear, as the Chaldee paraphrase; from the word and worship, and ways of God: and have walked after vanity;
after idols, the vanities of the Gentiles, ( Jeremiah 14:22 ) : and are become vain?
in their imaginations and in their actions, in their knowledge and in their practice, worshipping idols, as well as guilty of many other sins.
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