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10 Go west to the island of Cyprus,
    and send someone eastward to the land of Kedar.
    You will see that nothing like this has ever happened before.
11 No other nation has ever changed its gods,
    even though they were not real.
But my people have exchanged me,
    the God who has brought them honor,
    for gods that can do nothing for them.
12 And so I command the sky to shake with horror,
    to be amazed and astonished,

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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