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Jeremiah 2:23

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

How can you protest, ‘I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals’? Look at your behaviour in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young camel twisting and turning on her way,

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They have built the high places of Topheth  , in Ben Hinnom Valley  , in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire,  a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.


There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed from its filth.


Now we know that whatever the law says,  it speaks to those who are subject to the law,  , so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgement.  ,


But wanting to justify himself,  he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour? ’


How long will you turn here and there, faithless daughter? For the Lord creates something new in the land   – a female  will shelter  a man.


Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts  and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.’


Look to the barren heights  and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the roads like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.


This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’


The one who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.


and the Jews celebrated  with gladness, joy, and honour.


How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be put to shame by Egypt just as you were put to shame by Assyria.


This is what the Lord says concerning these people: Truly they love to wander; they never rest their feet. So the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.


‘When you tell these people all these things, they will say to you, “Why has the Lord declared all this terrible disaster against us?  What is our iniquity? What is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? ”


When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the  Lord.





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