Jeremias 2

1 And he said, Thus says the Lord,

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

2 I remember the kindness of your youth, and the love of your espousals,

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 in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord, Israel was the holy [people] to the Lord, [and] the first fruits of his increase: all that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon 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 Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel.

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

5 Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain?

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 said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man lived there?

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 brought you to Carmel, that you should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and you went in, and defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

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 said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.

[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 Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with 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 to the isles of the Chettians, and se; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;

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 if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory, [for that] from which they shall not be profited.

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

12 The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horror-struck, says the Lord.

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

13 For my people has committed two [faults], and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold 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, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?

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

15 The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.

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 Also the children of Memphis and Taphnas have known you, and mocked you.

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

17 Has not your forsaking me brought these things upon you? says the Lord your God.

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 with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Geon? and what have you to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers?

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 Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you: know then, and see, that your forsaking me [has been] bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.

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 of old you have broken your yoke, and plucked asunder your bands; and you has said, I will not serve you, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.

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 Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!

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

22 Though you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, [still] you are stained by your iniquities before me, says the Lord.

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 will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold your ways in the burial-ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening:

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 she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up [to them], who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at [the time of] her humiliation they shall find 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 Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself: for she loved strangers, and went after them.

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 is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and 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 They said to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You has begotten me: and they have turned [their] backs to me, and not their faces: yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.

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 And where are your gods, which you made for yourself? will they arise and save in the time of your affliction? for according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.

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 Therefore do you speak to me? you all have been ungodly, and you all have transgressed against me, says the Lord.

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

30 In vain have I struck your children; you have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet you feared not.

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 Hear you the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? therefore has my people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to you any more?

[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 Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin her girdle? but my people has forgotten me days without number.

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

33 What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? [it shall] not [be] so; moreover you has done wickedly in corrupting 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 your hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.

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 Yet you said, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I [will] plead with you, whereas you say, I have not sinned.

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 For you has been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat your ways; but you shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assur.

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 For you shall go forth thence also with your hands upon your head; for the Lord has rejected your hope, and you shall not prosper in it.

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