< Jeremiah 2 >

1 and to be word LORD to(wards) me to/for to say
And 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 cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy soul, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is 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 is holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his increase: all they that devour him offend: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
4 to hear: hear word LORD house: household Jacob and all family house: household Israel
Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye 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
Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
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
And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?
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
And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you defiled my land, and made my inheritance an abomination.
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 say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.
9 to/for so still to contend with you utterance LORD and with son: child son: child your to contend
Therefore will I yet contend in judgement with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your 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
Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing 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
If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.
12 be desolate: appalled heaven upon this and to shudder to destroy much utterance LORD
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.
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 done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14 servant/slave Israel if: surely no born house: household he/she/it why? to be to/for plunder
Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is 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 lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have made his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down and there is none to dwell in them.
16 also son: descendant/people Memphis (and Tahpanhes *Q(k)*) to pasture you crown
The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have deflowered thee, even to the crown of the 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
Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee by 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
And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the river?
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
Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
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
Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.
21 and I to plant you vine all his seed truth: faithful and how? to overturn to/for me degenerate [the] vine foreign
Yet I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how then art thou turned unto me into that which is good for nothing, O strange vineyard?
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
Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.
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 canst thou say: I am not polluted, and I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course.
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 ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall 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
Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved strangers, and I will walk 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 confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and 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
Saying to a stock: Thou art my father: and to a stone: thou hast begotten me: they have turned their back to me, and not their face: and in the time of their affliction they will say: Arise, and deliver 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
Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda.
29 to/for what? to contend to(wards) me all your to transgress in/on/with me utterance LORD
Why will you contend with me in judgement? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.
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
In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging 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
See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more.
32 to forget virgin ornament her daughter-in-law: bride sash her and people my to forget me day nothing number
Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher? but my people hath forgotten me 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
Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who has also taught thy malices to be thy 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
And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I mentioned before.
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
And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and therefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I will contend with thee in judgement, because thou hast said: 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 exceeding base art thou become, going the same ways over again! and thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of 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
For from thence thou shalt go, and thy hand shall be upon thy head: for the Lord hath destroyed thy trust, and thou shalt have nothing prosperous therein.

< Jeremiah 2 >