Jeremiah 2:17-19

New American Standard Bible

¹⁷Have you not ^(A)done this to yourself
By your abandoning the Lord your God
When He ^(B)led you in the way?
¹⁸But now what are you doing ^(C)on the road to Egypt,
Except to drink the waters of the ^[a]^(D)Nile?
Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria,
Except to drink the waters of the Euphrates River?
¹⁹^(E)Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your ^(F)apostasies will punish you;
Know therefore and see that it is evil and ^(G)bitter
For you to abandon the Lord your God,
And ^(H)the fear of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord ^[b]God of armies.

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 2:18 Heb Shihor
Jeremiah 2:19 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord

Jeremiah 9:2-9

New American Standard Bible

²^[a]^(A)Oh that I had in the desert
A travelers’ lodging place;
So that I might leave my people
And go away from them!
For all of them are ^(B)adulterers,
An assembly of ^(C)treacherous people.
³“They ^(D)bend their tongues like their bows;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they ^(E)proceed from evil to evil,
And they ^(F)do not know Me,” declares the Lord.
⁴“Let everyone ^(G)be on guard against his neighbor,
And ^(H)do not trust any brother;
Because every ^(I)brother utterly ^[b]betrays,
And every neighbor ^(J)goes about as a slanderer.
⁵Everyone ^(K)deceives his neighbor
And does not speak the truth.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They ^(L)weary themselves committing wrongdoing.
⁶Your ^(M)dwelling is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they ^(N)refuse to know Me,” declares the Lord.

⁷Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says:

“Behold, I will refine them and ^(O)put them to the test;
For ^(P)what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?
⁸Their ^(Q)tongue is a deadly arrow;
It speaks deceit;
With his mouth one ^(R)speaks peace to his neighbor,
But inwardly he ^(S)sets an ambush for him.
⁹^(T)Shall I not punish them for these things?” declares the Lord.
“Shall I not avenge Myself
On a nation such as this?