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Jeremiah 2 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Israel Forsakes God

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:1 - The word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the LORD says: “ ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:3 - Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest; all who devoured her were held guilty, and disaster overtook them,’ ”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:4 - Hear the word of the LORD, you descendants of Jacob, all you clans of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:5 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and utter darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7 - I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:8 - The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who deal with the law did not know me; the leaders rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:9 - “Therefore I bring charges against you again,”

declares the LORD.

“And I will bring charges against your children’s children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:10 - Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Kedar[fn] and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:11 - Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:12 - Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:13 - “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 - Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:16 - Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skull.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:17 - Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the LORD your God when he led you in the way?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:18 - Now why go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile[fn]? And why go to Assyria to drink water from the Euphrates?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:19 - Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your God and have no awe of me,”

declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:22 - Although you wash yourself with soap and use an abundance of cleansing powder, the stain of your guilt is still before me,”

declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:23 - “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24 - a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:25 - Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It’s no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:26 - “As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the people of Israel are disgraced— they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 - They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:28 - Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:29 - “Why do you bring charges against me? You have all rebelled against me,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 - “In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 - “You of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:32 - Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:33 - How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:34 - On your clothes is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:35 - you say, ‘I am innocent; he is not angry with me.’ But I will pass judgment on you because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:36 - Why do you go about so much, changing your ways? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:37 - You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not be helped by them.
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In the Syro-Arabian desert
Hebrew Shihor; that is, a branch of the Nile
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