Jeremiah 2:17-19
New American Standard Bible 1995
17 “Have you not (A)done this to yourself
By your forsaking the Lord your God
When He (B)led you in the way?
18 “But now what are you doing (C)on the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of the [a](D)Nile?
Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria,
To drink the waters of the [b]Euphrates?
19 “(E)Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your (F)apostasies will reprove you;
Know therefore and see that it is evil and (G)bitter
For you to forsake the Lord your God,
And (H)the dread of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord [c]God of hosts.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:18 Heb Shihor
- Jeremiah 2:18 Lit River
- Jeremiah 2:19 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Jeremiah 9:2-9
New American Standard Bible 1995
2 [a](A)Oh that I had in the desert
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are (B)adulterers,
An assembly of (C)treacherous men.
3 “They (D)bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they (E)proceed from evil to evil,
And they (F)do not know Me,” declares the Lord.
4 “Let everyone (G)be on guard against his neighbor,
And (H)do not trust any brother;
Because every (I)brother deals [b]craftily,
And every neighbor (J)goes about as a slanderer.
5 “Everyone (K)deceives his neighbor
And does not speak the truth,
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They (L)weary themselves committing iniquity.
6 “Your (M)dwelling is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they (N)refuse to know Me,” declares the Lord.
7 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Behold, I will refine them and (O)assay them;
For (P)what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?
8 “Their (Q)tongue is a deadly arrow;
It speaks deceit;
With his mouth one (R)speaks peace to his neighbor,
But inwardly he (S)sets an ambush for him.
9 “(T)Shall I not punish them for these things?” declares the Lord.
“On a nation such as this
Shall I not avenge Myself?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Heb
- Jeremiah 9:4 I.e. like Jacob (a play on words)
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