New American Standard Bible 2020

Jeremiah 2:20-25

20“For long ago 1 2I broke your yoke And tore off your restraints; But you said, ‘I will not serve!’ For on every 3high hill And under every leafy tree You have lain down as a prostitute.21Yet I 4planted you as a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me Into the 5degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?22Although you 6wash yourself with lye And 7use much soap, The 8stain of your guilt is before Me,” declares the Lord 9God.23“10How can you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the 11Baals’? Look at your way in the 12valley! Know what you have done! You are a swift young camel 13running about senselessly on her ways,24A 14wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, That sniffs the wind in her passion. Who can turn her away in her mating season? None who seek her will grow weary; In her month they will find her.25Keep your feet from being bare, And your throat from thirst; But you said, ‘15It is 16hopeless! No! For I have 17loved strangers, And I will walk after them.’

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 2:20 Or you ↩
2. Jeremiah 2:20 Lev 26:13 ↩
3. Jeremiah 2:20 Deut 12:2; Is 57:5, 7; Jer 3:2, 6; 17:2 ↩
4. Jeremiah 2:21 Ex 15:17; Ps 44:2; 80:8; Is 5:2 ↩
5. Jeremiah 2:21 Is 5:4 ↩
6. Jeremiah 2:22 Jer 4:14 ↩
7. Jeremiah 2:22 Lit acquire much soap for yourself ↩
8. Jeremiah 2:22 Job 14:17; Hos 13:12 ↩
9. Jeremiah 2:22 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord ↩
10. Jeremiah 2:23 Prov 30:12 ↩
11. Jeremiah 2:23 Jer 9:14 ↩
12. Jeremiah 2:23 Jer 7:31 ↩
13. Jeremiah 2:23 Jer 2:33, 36; 31:22 ↩
14. Jeremiah 2:24 Jer 14:6 ↩
15. Jeremiah 2:25 Jer 18:12 ↩
16. Jeremiah 2:25 Or desperate ↩
17. Jeremiah 2:25 Deut 32:16; Jer 14:10 ↩

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