Berean Standard Bible

Jeremiah 2:9-19

9Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.10Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus1 and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:11Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory2 for useless idols.12Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.13“For My people have committed two evils:

They have forsaken Me,the fountain of living water,and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

14Is Israel a slave?Was he born into slavery?Why then has he become prey?15The young lions have roared at him;they have sounded their voices.They have laid waste his land;his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.16The men of Memphis3 and Tahpanheshave shaved the crown of your head.17Have you not brought this on yourselfby forsaking the LORD your Godwhen He led you in the way?

18Now what will you gain on your way to Egyptto drink the waters of the Nile4?What will you gain on your way to Assyriato drink the waters of the Euphrates5?19Your own evil will discipline you;your own apostasies will reprimand you.Consider and realizehow evil and bitter it isfor you to forsake the LORD your Godand to have no fear of Me,”declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 2:10 Hebrew Kittim ↩
2. Jeremiah 2:11 Or their glorious God ↩
3. Jeremiah 2:16 LXX; Hebrew Noph ↩
4. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew of Shihor, a branch of the Nile River ↩
5. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River ↩

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