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25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out
and your throats become dry.[a]
But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me
because I love those foreign gods[b] and want to pursue them!’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:25 tn Heb “Refrain your feet from being bare and your throat from being dry/thirsty.”
  2. Jeremiah 2:25 tn Heb “It is useless! No!” For this idiom, see Jer 18:12; NEB “No; I am desperate.”

25 Do not run until your feet are bare
    and your throat is dry.
But you said, ‘It’s no use!(A)
    I love foreign gods,(B)
    and I must go after them.’(C)

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