← Jeremiah
Jeremiah 2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Jeremiah 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying,
Oracle 1 Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Jeremiah 2:3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, — saith the LORD.
Oracle 2 Jeremiah 2:4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
- A. Jeremiah 2:5 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?
- B. Jeremiah 2:6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that 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 no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
- C. Jeremiah 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof;
- C'. Jeremiah 2:7 but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
- B'. Jeremiah 2:8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal,
- A'. Jeremiah 2:8 and walked after things that do not profit. Jeremiah 2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, — saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
Oracle 3
Jeremiah 2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
Jeremiah 2:11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jeremiah 2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, — saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils;
- a. they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters,
- b. and hewed them out cisterns,
- a'. that can hold no water.