Therefore, I will bring a case against you again.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will bring a case against your children’s children.(A)
10 Cross over to Cyprus[a](B) and take a look.
Send someone to Kedar(C) and consider carefully;
see if there has ever been anything like this:
11 Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?(D)
(But they were not gods!(E))
Yet My people have exchanged their[b] Glory
for useless idols.(F)
12 Be horrified at this, heavens;(G)
be shocked and utterly appalled.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:10 Lit to the islands of Kittim
  2. Jeremiah 2:11 Ancient Jewish tradition reads My

The Unfaithfulness of Contemporary Israel

Therefore[a] I again bring a lawsuit against you,” declares[b] Yahweh,
    “and with your children[c] I bring a lawsuit.
10 For go over to the coasts of Cyprus and look,
    and send to Kedar and consider very closely,
    and see if there has been a thing like this:
11 Has a nation exchanged gods? And they are not gods!
    But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.
12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and shudder;
    be utterly desolate,” declares[d] Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:9 Literally “To thus”
  2. Jeremiah 2:9 Literally “a declaration of”
  3. Jeremiah 2:9 Literally “sons of your sons”
  4. Jeremiah 2:12 Literally “a declaration of”