Jeremiah 2:17-19
Legacy Standard Bible
17 Have you not (A)done this to yourself
By your forsaking Yahweh 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]River?
19 (E)Your own evil will chastise you,
And your (F)acts of faithlessness will reprove you;
Know therefore and see that it is evil and (G)bitter
For you to forsake Yahweh your God,
And (H)the dread of Me is not in you,” declares Lord Yahweh of hosts.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:18 Heb Shihor
- Jeremiah 2:18 The Euphrates River
Jeremiah 9:2-9
Legacy Standard Bible
2 [a](A)Oh that I had in the desert
A travelers’ lodging place,
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are (B)adulterers,
A solemn assembly of (C)treacherous men.
3 “They (D)bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and unfaithfulness prevail in the land,
For they (E)go onward from evil to evil,
And they (F)do not know Me,” declares Yahweh.
4 “Let everyone (G)beware of his neighbor,
And (H)do not trust any brother,
Because every (I)brother [b]surely supplants,
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)habitation is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they (N)refuse to know Me,” declares Yahweh.
7 Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts,
“Behold, I will refine them and (O)test them;
For (P)what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?
8 Their (Q)tongue is a slaughtering 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 Yahweh.
“On a nation such as this
Shall I not avenge Myself?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Heb
- Jeremiah 9:4 Heb sounds like Jacob (a play on words)
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