Jeremiah 2

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

and to be word LORD to(wards) me to/for to say

2 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.

to go: went and to call: call out in/on/with ear: hearing Jerusalem to/for to say thus to say LORD to remember to/for you kindness youth your love betrothal your to go: follow you after me in/on/with wilderness in/on/with land: country/planet not to sow

3 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.

holiness Israel to/for LORD first: beginning (produce his *Q(K)*) all to eat him be guilty distress: harm to come (in): come to(wards) them utterance LORD

4 Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:

to hear: hear word LORD house: household Jacob and all family house: household Israel

5 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?

thus to say LORD what? to find father your in/on/with me injustice for to remove from upon me and to go: follow after [the] vanity and to become vain

6 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 not to say where? LORD [the] to ascend: rise [obj] us from land: country/planet Egypt [the] to go: take [obj] us in/on/with wilderness in/on/with land: country/planet plain and pit in/on/with land: country/planet dryness and shadow in/on/with land: country/planet not to pass in/on/with her man: anyone and not to dwell man there

7 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.

and to come (in): bring [obj] you to(wards) land: country/planet [the] plantation to/for to eat fruit her and goodness her and to come (in): come and to defile [obj] land: country/planet my and inheritance my to set: make to/for abomination

8 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.

[the] priest not to say where? LORD and to capture [the] instruction not to know me and [the] to pasture to transgress in/on/with me and [the] prophet to prophesy in/on/with Baal and after not to gain to go: follow

9 For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

to/for so still to contend with you utterance LORD and with son: child son: child your to contend

10 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.

for to pass coastland Cyprus and to see: see and Kedar to send: depart and to understand much and to see: see look! to be like/as this

11 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.

to exchange nation God and they(masc.) not God and people my to change glory his in/on/with not to gain

12 Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

be desolate: appalled heaven upon this and to shudder to destroy much utterance LORD

13 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.

for two distress: evil to make people my [obj] me to leave: forsake fountain water alive to/for to hew to/for them cistern cistern to break which not to sustain [the] water

14 Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?

servant/slave Israel if: surely no born house: household he/she/it why? to be to/for plunder

15 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.

upon him to roar lion to give: cry out voice: sound their and to set: make land: country/planet his to/for horror: destroyed city his (to kindle *Q(K)*) from without to dwell

16 Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.

also son: descendant/people Memphis (and Tahpanhes *Q(k)*) to pasture you crown

17 Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?

not this to make: do to/for you to leave: forsake you [obj] LORD God your in/on/with time to go: take you in/on/with way: journey

18 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?

and now what? to/for you to/for way: journey Egypt to/for to drink water Nile and what? to/for you to/for way: journey Assyria to/for to drink water River

19 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.

to discipline you distress: evil your and faithlessness your to rebuke you and to know and to see: see for bad: evil and bitter to leave: forsake you [obj] LORD God your and not dread my to(wards) you utterance Lord YHWH/God Hosts

20 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

for from forever: antiquity to break yoke your to tear bond your and to say not (to pass: trespass *Q(K)*) for upon all hill high and underneath: under all tree luxuriant you(f. s.) to march to fornicate

21 But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

and I to plant you vine all his seed truth: faithful and how? to overturn to/for me degenerate [the] vine foreign

22 For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.

for if to wash in/on/with lye and to multiply to/for you lye be stained iniquity: guilt your to/for face: before my utterance Lord YHWH/God

23 How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;

how? to say not to defile after [the] Baal not to go: follow to see: see way: journey your in/on/with valley to know what? to make: do young camel swift to twist way: journey her

24 An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

wild donkey disciple wilderness in/on/with desire (soul: myself her *Q(K)*) to long for spirit: breath estrous her who? to return: turn back her all to seek her not to faint in/on/with month her to find her

25 Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

to withhold foot your from barefoot (and throat your *Q(K)*) from parched and to say to despair not for to love: lover be a stranger and after them to go: went

26 As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

like/as shame thief for to find so be ashamed house: household Israel they(masc.) king their ruler their and priest their and prophet their

27 Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

to say to/for tree father my you(m. s.) and to/for stone you(f. s.) (to beget us *Q(K)*) for to turn to(wards) me neck and not face and in/on/with time distress: harm their to say to arise: rise [emph?] and to save us

28 But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.

and where? God your which to make to/for you to arise: rise if to save you in/on/with time distress: harm your for number city your to be God your Judah

29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

to/for what? to contend to(wards) me all your to transgress in/on/with me utterance LORD

30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

to/for vanity: vain to smite [obj] son: child your discipline not to take: take to eat sword your prophet your like/as lion to ruin

31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

[the] generation you(m. p.) to see: behold! word LORD wilderness to be to/for Israel if: surely no land: country/planet darkness why? to say people my to roam not to come (in): come still to(wards) you

32 Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.

to forget virgin ornament her daughter-in-law: bride sash her and people my to forget me day nothing number

33 With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.

what? be good way: conduct your to/for to seek love to/for so also [obj] [the] bad: evil (to learn: teach *Q(K)*) [obj] way: conduct your

34 And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...

also in/on/with wing your to find blood soul: life needy innocent not in/on/with breaking to find them for upon all these

35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

and to say for to clear surely to return: turn back face: anger his from me look! I to judge with you upon to say you not to sin

36 Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.

what? be gone much to/for to change [obj] way: journey your also from Egypt be ashamed like/as as which be ashamed from Assyria

37 Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.

also from with this to come out: come and hand your upon head your for to reject LORD in/on/with confidence your and not to prosper to/for them