Jeremiah 2:20-22
Lexham English Bible
20 “For from long ago you have broken your yoke,
you tore to pieces your bonds.
And you said, ‘I will not serve!’
But on every high hill and under every leafy tree
you were lying down as a prostitute.
21 Yet I planted you as a choice vine,
all of it a seed of trustworthiness.
How then have you altered before me
into something that is degenerate, the foreign vine?
22 For if you wash with natron,
and you use much soap,[a]
your guilt is sticking as a stain before[b] me,”
declares[c] the Lord Yahweh.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:22 Literally “make numerous for yourself alkaline salt”
- Jeremiah 2:22 Literally “to the face of”
- Jeremiah 2:22 Literally “a declaration of”
Jeremiah 2:20-22
New King James Version
20 “For of old I have (A)broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And (B)you said, ‘I will not [a]transgress,’
When (C)on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, (D)playing the harlot.
21 Yet I had (E)planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into (F)the degenerate plant of an alien vine?
22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is (G)marked[b] before Me,” says the Lord God.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:20 Kt. serve
- Jeremiah 2:22 stained
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