rsv Jeremiah:2:11-28
rsv@Jeremiah:2:11 @ Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:12 @ Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, says the LORD,
rsv@Jeremiah:2:13 @ for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:14 @ "Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?
rsv@Jeremiah:2:15 @ The lions have roared against him, they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:16 @ Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tah'panhes have broken the crown of your head.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:17 @ Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way?
rsv@Jeremiah:2:18 @ And now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphra'tes?
rsv@Jeremiah:2:19 @ Your wickedness will chasten you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:20 @ "For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds; and you said, `I will not serve.' Yea, upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down as a harlot.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:21 @ Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
rsv@Jeremiah:2:22 @ Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:23 @ How can you say, `I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Ba'als'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done--a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,
rsv@Jeremiah:2:24 @ a wild ass used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:25 @ Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, `It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'
rsv@Jeremiah:2:26 @ "As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
rsv@Jeremiah:2:27 @ who say to a tree, `You are my father,' and to a stone, `You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, `Arise and save us!'
rsv@Jeremiah:2:28 @ But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.
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