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Jeremiah - ch 2 v 1 - 20
- And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
- Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.
- Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:
- These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
- And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
- And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.
- The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
- For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.
- For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.
- Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.
- Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.
- For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
- Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?
- The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
- Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.
- Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
- And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?
- The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
- For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
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