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Jeremiah 2:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the  Lord your God while he was leading you along the way?

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Your way and your actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. It is very bitter, because it has reached your heart!


Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise  how evil and bitter  it is for you to abandon the  Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.


For my people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves #– # cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.


I will destroy you, Israel; you have no help but me.  ,


Oh sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned  the  Lord; they have despised  the Holy One of Israel; they have turned their backs on him.


In my experience, those who plough injustice and those who sow trouble  reap the same.


‘As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind,  for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought.  If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you for ever.


When the Lord saw this, he despised them, angered by his sons and daughters.


He found him in a desolate land, in a barren, howling wilderness; he surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the pupil of his eye.


But if you don’t do this, you will certainly sin against the Lord; be sure your sin will catch up with you.


Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you. Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,


And when you ask yourself, ‘Why have these things happened to me? ’ it is because of your great guilt that your skirts have been stripped off, your body exposed.


because they have abandoned me  and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.


because of the evil they committed to anger me,  by going and burning incense to serve other gods that they, you, and your ancestors did not know.


I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid my face from them.


So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, ‘Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you  when 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 did not understand any of his ways


Discipline is harsh for the one who leaves the path; the one who hates correction will die.


transgression and deception against the  Lord, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.


All this will happen because of Jacob’s rebellion and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Isn’t it Jerusalem?





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