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“Therefore I’ll again accuse you,”
    declares the Lord,
“and I’ll accuse your grandchildren.”

10 “Indeed, go over to the coasts of Cyprus and see,
    send to Kedar and pay very close attention.
        See if there has ever been such a thing as this!
11 Has a nation ever changed gods
    when they aren’t even gods?
But my people have exchanged their glory
    for that which does not profit.
12 Heavens, be appalled at this,
    be shocked, be utterly[a] devastated,”
        declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:12 Lit. very

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”