Jeremiah 2
1 and to be word LORD to(wards) me to/for to say
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 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
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
3 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
Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her found themselves guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.
4 to hear: hear word LORD house: household Jacob and all family house: household Israel
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.
5 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
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
6 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
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
7 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
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
8 [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
The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
9 to/for so still to contend with you utterance LORD and with son: child son: child your to contend
Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.
10 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
Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:
11 to exchange nation God and they(masc.) not God and people my to change glory his in/on/with not to gain
Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
12 be desolate: appalled heaven upon this and to shudder to destroy much utterance LORD
Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,”
13 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
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
14 servant/slave Israel if: surely no born house: household he/she/it why? to be to/for plunder
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
15 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
The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
16 also son: descendant/people Memphis (and Tahpanhes *Q(k)*) to pasture you crown
The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.
17 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
Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
18 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
Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
19 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
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,”
20 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
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
21 and I to plant you vine all his seed truth: faithful and how? to overturn to/for me degenerate [the] vine foreign
I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
22 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
Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,”
23 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
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
24 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
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
25 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
You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
26 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
As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
27 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
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
28 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
But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
29 to/for what? to contend to(wards) me all your to transgress in/on/with me utterance LORD
Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,”
30 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
“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
31 [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
You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
32 to forget virgin ornament her daughter-in-law: bride sash her and people my to forget me day nothing number
Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
33 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
How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
34 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
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
35 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
you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
36 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
How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
37 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
Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”
