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10 No other nation has done what you have done!
Send people across the sea to islands in the west.
    Or send them to the deserts in the east.
Let them find out if any other people have done this terrible thing.
11     Have any other nations turned against their gods?
No! They have not done that, even to their false gods!
But my people have turned against me,
    the true God who makes them great.’

12 The Lord says,

‘The whole universe should see how terrible this is.
    Yes, everything should shake with fear!

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10 Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus(A) and look,
    send to Kedar[a](B) and observe closely;
    see if there has ever been anything like this:
11 Has a nation ever changed its gods?
    (Yet they are not gods(C) at all.)
But my people have exchanged their glorious(D) God
    for worthless idols.
12 Be appalled at this, you heavens,
    and shudder with great horror,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:10 In the Syro-Arabian desert