Jeremiah 2:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God, while he led you in the way? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God when He led you in the way? American Standard Version (1901) Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way? Common English Bible Haven’t you brought this on yourself by abandoning the LORD your God, who has directed your paths? Catholic Public Domain Version Has this not been done to you because you abandoned the Lord your God, in that time when he was leading you by the way? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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? |
“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.
He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
because they turned aside from following him and had no regard for any of his ways,
who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures forever; who made water flow from the rock, for his steadfast love endures forever;
There is severe discipline for one who forsakes the way; one who hates a rebuke will die.
Woe, sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, offspring who do evil, children who act corruptly, who have forsaken the Lord, who have despised the Holy One of Israel, [[who are utterly estranged!]]
transgressing and denying the Lord and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.
And if you say in your heart, “Why have these things come upon me?” it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you are violated.
Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent
for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.
Your wickedness will punish you, and your faithlessness will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.
Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom; how bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.”
because of the wickedness that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings to and serve other gods that they had not known, neither they, nor you, nor your ancestors.
Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have deprived you of good.
I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions and hid my face from them.
All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
But if you do not do this, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.
He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his eye.