The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 2:12 (NKJV)
Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be very desolate,” says the LORD.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 2:13 (NIV)

‘My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 2:14 (NIV)

Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 2:15 (NKJV)
The young lions roared at him, and growled; They made his land waste; His cities are burned, without inhabitant.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 2:16 (NKJV)
Also the people of Noph and Tahpanhes Have broken the crown of your head.

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 2:17 (NKJV)

Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God
When He led you in the way?

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 2:18 (NKJV)

And now why take the road to Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or why take the road to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

 

[iTheophilus]

Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have forsaken the LORD your God, And the fear of Me is not in you," Says the Lord GOD of hosts.

- Jeremiah 2:19 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

"For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.

- Jeremiah 2:20 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality. How then have you turned before Me Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?

- Jeremiah 2:21 (NKJV)

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 2:22 (NKJV)
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, Yet your iniquity is marked before Me,” says the Lord GOD.

 

[Godsgirl83]

Jeremiah 2:23

“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,

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 2:24 (NKJV)
A wild donkey used to the wilderness,
That sniffs at the wind in her desire;
In her time of mating, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves;

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 2:25 (NKJV)
Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘There is no hope.
No! For I have loved aliens, and after them I will go.’

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 2:26 (NKJV)

“As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they and their kings and their princes, and their priests and prophets,

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 2:27 (NKJV)

Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ 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.’

 

[iTheophilus]

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, O Judah.

- Jeremiah 2:28 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

"Why will you plead with Me? You all have transgressed against Me," says the LORD.

- Jeremiah 2:29 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

"In vain I have chastened your children; They received no correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

- Jeremiah 2:30 (NKJV)

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 2:31 (NIV)

‘You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord:

‘Have I been a desert to Israel
or a land of great darkness?
Why do my people say, “We are free to roam;
we will come to you no more”?