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Jeremiah 2:19

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Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter for you to have forsaken the Lord your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord God of Hosts.

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And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and you have followed the Baals.

Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the rulers of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem before Shishak, and he said to them, “So the Lord says: You have abandoned Me, so I have abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.”

So Edom revolted from being under the hand of Judah until this day. At that time Libnah also revolted from being under their rule, because Jehoram had abandoned the Lord God of his fathers.

But while the prophet was speaking, the king said, “Have we made you a counselor to the king? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” The prophet refrained, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and not heeded my advice.”

An oracle within my heart about the transgression of the wicked: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

The Israelites stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the cords of his sin.

The expression of their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they hide it not. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.

So now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be consumed; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down.

Thus says the Lord: Where is the certificate of divorce by which I sent your mother away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

I will utter My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods, and have worshipped the works of their own hands.

And if you say in your heart, “Why have these things come upon me?” for the greatness of your iniquity your skirts have been removed and your heels made bare.

Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God when He led you in the way?

Return, O backsliding sons, and I will heal your backslidings. “Behold, we come to You, for You are the Lord our God.

Your way and your deeds have procured these things to you. This is your wickedness. How bitter it is! How it touches your heart!”

Do you not fear Me? says the Lord. Will you not tremble at My presence? For I have placed the sand for the boundary of the sea by a perpetual decree so that it cannot pass over it. And though the waves toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail; though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.

They do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear the Lord our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”

Therefore a lion out of the forest will slay them, and a wolf from the deserts will destroy them; a leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings have increased.

Do they provoke Me to anger? says the Lord. Do they not provoke themselves to the shame of their own faces?

Why then is this people of Jerusalem turned away by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

I will do these things to you because you have gone whoring after the nations, because you have polluted yourself with their idols.

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions, I have done to them and hid My face from them.

My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they called to the Most High, none at all exalt Him.

O Israel, you are destroyed, but in Me is your help.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn. Now will the Lord feed them like a lamb in a wide pasture?

The pride of Israel testifies against him. Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity. Judah also stumbles with them.

but they did not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds surround them; they are before My face.

Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult like the peoples, for you have played the whore departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on every threshing floor.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into dirges; I will put sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

All this because of the transgression of Jacob and because of 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 they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears so that they should not hear.

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Yet you have abandoned Me and worshipped other gods. Therefore I will not save you again.




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