Jeremiah:2:10-28

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* For pass over the isles of Chittim , and see ; and send unto Kedar , and consider diligently m @#od #, and see if there be such a thing . * Hath a nation changed their gods , which are yet no gods ? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit . * Be astonished , O ye heavens , at this , and be horribly afraid , be ye very desolate , saith the LORD . * For my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters , and hewed them out cisterns bo #r #, broken cisterns bo #r #, that can hold no water . * Is Israel a servant ? is he a homeborn bayith # slave ? why is he spoiled ? * The young lions roared upon him , and yelled , and they made his land waste : his cities are burned without inhabitant . * Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head . * Hast thou not procured this unto thyself , in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God , when he led thee by the way ? * And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt , to drink the waters of Sihor ? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria , to drink the waters of the river ? * Thine own wickedness shall correct thee , and thy backslidings shall reprove thee : know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter , that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God , and that my fear is not in thee , saith the Lord GOD of hosts . * For of old time I have broken thy yoke , and burst thy bands ; and thou saidst , I will not transgress (8675 ); when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest , playing the harlot . * Yet I had planted thee a noble vine , wholly a right seed : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me ? * For though thou wash thee with nitre , and take thee much soap , yet thine iniquity is marked before me , saith the Lord GOD . * How canst thou say , I am not polluted , I have not gone after Baalim Ba #al #? see thy way in the valley , know what thou hast done : thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways ; * A wild ass used to the wilderness , that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure #H5315 ; in her occasion who can turn her away ? all they that seek her will not weary themselves ; in her month they shall find her . * Withhold thy foot from being unshod , and thy throat from thirst tsim #ah #: but thou saidst , There is no hope : 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 , * Saying to a stock , Thou art my father ; and to a stone , Thou hast brought me forth : for they have turned their back unto me , and not their face : but in the time of their trouble they will say , Arise , and save us . * But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee ? let them arise , if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble : for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods , O Judah .

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