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Jeremiah - ch 2 v 21 - 37
- Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
- For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.
- How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
- a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
- Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
- As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
- who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
- But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.
- Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh.
- In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?
- Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
- How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways.
- Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
- Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
- Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
- From there also you shall go forth, with your hands on your head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
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