20 “For long ago [a](A)I broke your yoke
And tore off your restraints;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every (B)high hill
And under every leafy tree
You have lain down as a prostitute.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:20 Or you

25 Keep your feet from being bare,
And your throat from thirst;
But you said, ‘(A)It is [a]hopeless!
No! For I have (B)loved strangers,
And I will walk after them.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:25 Or desperate

“Raise your eyes to the (A)bare heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
You have (B)sat for them by the roads
Like an Arab in the desert,
And you have (C)defiled a land
With your prostitution and your wickedness.

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Faithless Israel

Then the Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She (A)went up on every high hill and under every leafy tree, and she prostituted herself there.

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