Jeremiah 2:23 - The Scriptures 1998

²³ “How do you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baʽ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals [other gods]? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done. You are a restive young female camel [in the uncontrollable violence of her brute passion eagerly] running hither and thither,

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Common English Bible

²³ How can you say, “I’m not dirty; I haven’t gone after Baals.” Look what you have done in the valley; consider what you have done there. You are like a frenzied young camel, racing around,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ How can you say: 'I have not been polluted. I have not walked after Baal?' Consider your ways in the steep valley. Acknowledge what you have done, so that you may be like a swift runner, following his course.

Jeremiah 2:23 Cross References

Esther 8:16

For the Yehuḏ

Psalm 36:2

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, To find his crookedness to be hated.

Psalm 50:21

“You have done this, and I kept silent; You have thought that I was altogether like you – I rebuke you, and set it in order before your eyes.

Proverbs 28:13

He who hides his transgressions does not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them finds compassion.

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation, clean in its own eyes, But not washed from its own filth.

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of an adulterous woman: She shall eat and wipe her mouth, and say, “I have not done wickedness.”

Jeremiah 14:10

Thus said יהוה  to this people, “So they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet. Therefore יהוה  has not accepted them. Now He does remember their crookedness and punish their sins.”

Jeremiah 16:10

“And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, ‘Why has יהוה  pronounced all this great evil against us? And what is our crookedness, and what is our sin that we have committed against יהוה  our Elohim?’

Jeremiah 2:36

“Why do you go about so much to change your way? Even of Mitsrayim you are to be ashamed, as you were ashamed of Ashshur.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not lain with men? Besides the ways you have sat for them like an Araḇ

Jeremiah 31:22

“Till when would you turn here and there, O backsliding daughter? For יהוה  has created what is new on earth: a woman encompasses a man!”

Jeremiah 7:31

“And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.

Jeremiah 9:14

but they have walked according to the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baʽ

Hosea 1:2

The beginning of the word of יהוה  with Hoshĕ

Luke 10:29

But he, wishing to declare himself righteous, said to יהושע, “And who is my neighbour?”

Romans 3:19

And we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those who are in the Torah, so that every mouth might be stopped, and all the world come under judgment before Elohim.