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Jeremiah 2:19

New American Bible - revised edition

Your own wickedness chastises you, your own infidelities punish you. Know then, and see, how evil and bitter is your forsaking the Lord, your God, And your showing no fear of me, oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts.

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Their very look bears witness against them; they boast of their sin like Sodom, They do not hide it. Woe to them! They deal out evil to themselves.

Your conduct, your deeds, have done this to you; how bitter is this evil of yours, how it reaches to your very heart!

Has not forsaking the Lord, your God, done this to you?

For the leader. Of David, the servant of the Lord.

The arrogance of Israel bears witness against him; Israel and Ephraim stumble because of their iniquity, and Judah stumbles with them.

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into dirges. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make it like the time of mourning for an only child, and its outcome like a day of bitter weeping.

My people have their mind set on apostasy; though they call on God in unison, he shall not raise them up.

Therefore, lions from the forest slay them, wolves of the desert ravage them, Leopards keep watch round their cities: all who come out are torn to pieces, For their crimes are many, their rebellions numerous.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

But they refused to listen; they stubbornly turned their backs and stopped their ears so as not to hear.

Samaria has become guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed to pieces, their pregnant women shall be ripped open.

Why then do these people resist with persistent rebellion? Why do they cling to deception, refuse to turn back?

For like a stubborn cow, Israel is stubborn; Will the Lord now pasture them, like lambs in a broad meadow?

Should you not fear me—oracle of the Lord— should you not tremble before me? I made the sandy shore the sea’s limit, which by eternal decree it may not overstep. Toss though it may, it is to no avail; though its billows roar, they cannot overstep.

Return, rebellious children! I will heal your rebellions. “Here we are! We belong to you, for you are the Lord, our God.

Thus says the Lord: Where is the bill of divorce with which I dismissed your mother? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? It was for your sins you were sold, for your rebellions your mother was dismissed.

Now, I will let you know what I am going to do to my vineyard: Take away its hedge, give it to grazing, break through its wall, let it be trampled!

By their own iniquities the wicked will be caught, in the meshes of their own sin they will be held fast;

Well, then, they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and with their own devices be glutted.

For the straying of the naive kills them, the smugness of fools destroys them.

And do not say in their hearts, “Let us fear the Lord, our God, Who gives us rain early and late, in its time; Who watches for us over the appointed weeks of harvest.”

According to their defilement and their crimes I dealt with them, hiding my face from them.

Yet they do not call to mind that I remember all their wickedness. Now their crimes surround them, present to my sight.

I destroy you, Israel! who is there to help you?

All this is for the crime of Jacob, for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the crime of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

So, from Mount Horeb onward, the Israelites stripped off their ornaments. Moses’ Intimacy with God.

you still abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

He answered, “It is not I who disturb Israel, but you and your father’s house, by forsaking the commands of the Lord and you by following the Baals.

Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the commanders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them: “Thus says the Lord: You have abandoned me, and so I have abandoned you to the power of Shishak.”

To this day Edom has been in revolt against the rule of Judah. Libnah also revolted at that time against his rule because he had abandoned the Lord, the God of his ancestors.

While he was still speaking, however, the king said to him: “Have you been appointed the king’s counselor? Stop! Why should you have to be killed?” Therefore the prophet stopped. But he said, “I know that God’s counsel is your destruction, for by doing this you have refused to listen to my counsel.” Amaziah Punished.

I will pronounce my sentence against them for all their wickedness in forsaking me, In burning incense to other gods, in bowing down to the works of their hands.

Are they really offending me—oracle of the Lord—or rather themselves, to their own disgrace?

If you say to yourself: “Why have these things happened to me?” For your great guilt your skirts are stripped away and you are violated.

brought these things upon you because you served as a prostitute for the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

Do not rejoice, Israel, do not exult like the nations! For you have prostituted yourself, abandoning your God, loving a prostitute’s fee upon every threshing floor.




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