Jeremiah 2:4-8
1599 Geneva Bible
4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
5 Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone [a]far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become [b]vain?
6 For they said not, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a desert, and waste land, through a dry land, and by [c]the shadow of death, by a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof, and the commodities of the same: but when ye entered, ye defiled [d]my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
8 The priests said not, [e]Where is the Lord? and they that should minister the [f]Law, knew me not: the [g]pastors also offended against me, and the prophets prophesied in [h]Baal, and went after things that did not profit.
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- Jeremiah 2:5 That is, fallen to most vile idolatry.
- Jeremiah 2:5 Altogether given to vanity, and are become blind and insensible as the idols that they serve.
- Jeremiah 2:6 Where for lack of all things necessary for life, ye could look for nothing every hour but present death.
- Jeremiah 2:7 By your idolatry and wicked manners, Ps. 78:58 and 106:38.
- Jeremiah 2:8 They taught not the people to seek after God.
- Jeremiah 2:8 As the Scribes, which should have expounded the Law to the people.
- Jeremiah 2:8 Meaning, the Princes and Ministers: signifying, that all estates were corrupt.
- Jeremiah 2:8 That is, spake vain things, and brought the people from the true worship of God to serve idols: for by Baal, which was the chief idol of the Moabites, are meant all idols.
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