Jeremiah 2
1 The word of YHWH came to me, saying,
and to be word LORD to(wards) me to/for to say
2 "Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says YHWH, "I remember you, the devotion of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
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 holiness to YHWH, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,"' says YHWH."
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 YHWH, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
to hear: hear word LORD house: household Jacob and all family house: household Israel
5 Thus says YHWH, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are 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 Neither did they say, 'Where is YHWH who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'
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 I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my 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 did not say, 'Where is YHWH?' And those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
[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 contend with you," says YHWH, "and I will contend 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 pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has 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 a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not 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 astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate," says YHWH.
be desolate: appalled heaven upon this and to shudder to destroy much utterance LORD
13 "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no 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? Is he a native-born slave? Why has he become a prey?
servant/slave Israel if: surely no born house: household he/she/it why? to be to/for plunder
15 The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
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 The people of Memphis and Tahpanhes have also shaved the crown of your head.
also son: descendant/people Memphis (and Tahpanhes *Q(k)*) to pasture you crown
17 "Haven't you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken YHWH your God, when he led you 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 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink 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 "Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that you have forsaken YHWH your God, and that my fear is not in you," says YHWH of hosts.
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 time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve;' for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
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 had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
and I to plant you vine all his seed truth: faithful and how? to overturn to/for me degenerate [the] vine foreign
22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says YHWH.
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 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;
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 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will 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 "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 I will go 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 the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their officials, 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 who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' 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.'
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 your gods that you have made for yourselves? 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. And according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they were sacrificing 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 "Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says YHWH.
to/for what? to contend to(wards) me all your to transgress in/on/with me utterance LORD
30 "I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying 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 Generation, consider the word of YHWH. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no 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 "Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
to forget virgin ornament her daughter-in-law: bride sash her and people my to forget me day nothing number
33 How well you prepare your way to seek love. Therefore you have taught even the wicked women 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 Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
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. Surely his anger has turned away from me.' "Look, I will judge you, because 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 Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed 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 From there also you shall go forth, with your hands on your head; for YHWH has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
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
