Jeremiah 2:4-8
Holman Christian Standard Bible
4 Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacob
and all families of the house of Israel.
5 This is what the Lord says:
What fault did your fathers find in Me(A)
that they went so far from Me,
followed worthless idols,(B)
and became worthless themselves?(C)
6 They stopped asking, “Where is the Lord(D)
who brought us from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,(E)
through a land of deserts and ravines,
through a land of drought and darkness,[a]
a land no one traveled through
and where no one lived?”
7 I brought you to a fertile land(F)
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled My land;(G)
you made My inheritance(H) detestable.
8 The priests quit asking, “Where is the Lord?”
The experts in the law no longer knew Me,(I)
and the rulers(J) rebelled against Me.
The prophets prophesied by[b] Baal(K)
and followed useless idols.(L)
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:6 Or shadow of death
- Jeremiah 2:8 = in the name of
Jeremiah 2:4-8
Lexham English Bible
The Unfaithfulness of Israel’s Ancestors
4 Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the clans[a] of the house of Israel. 5 Thus says Yahweh:
“What injustice did your ancestors[b] find in me
that they were far from me,
and they went after the vanity,
and they became vain?
6 And they did not say,
‘Where is Yahweh,
the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
the one who led us in the desert,[c]
in a land of desert plains and gorges,[d]
in a land of dryness and deep darkness,
in a land that no one passes through,[e]
and no human lives there?’
7 And I brought you to the land of the orchard,
to eat its fruit, and its good things.[f]
But you entered and defiled my land,
and my inheritance you made a detestable thing.[g]
8 The priests did not say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’
and those who handle the law did not know me,
and the shepherds have rebelled against me,[h]
and the prophets prophesied by Baal,
and they went after things which do not profit.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:4 Or “families”
- Jeremiah 2:5 Or “fathers”
- Jeremiah 2:6 Or “wilderness”
- Jeremiah 2:6 Hebrew “gorge”
- Jeremiah 2:6 Literally “no man passes through in it”
- Jeremiah 2:7 Hebrew “good thing”
- Jeremiah 2:7 Or “abomination”
- Jeremiah 2:8 Literally “broken with me”
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