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Jeremiah 2:23

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“How can you say to me, ‘I am not guilty. I have not worshiped the Baal idols’? Look at the things you did in the valley. Think about what you have done. You are like a she-camel in mating season that runs from place to place.

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It was a time of happiness, joy, gladness, and honor for the Jewish people.

They think too much of themselves so they don’t see their sin and hate it.

I have kept quiet while you did these things, so you thought I was just like you. But I will scold you and accuse you to your face.

If you hide your sins, you will not succeed. If you confess and reject them, you will receive mercy.

Some people think they are pure, but they are not really free from evil.

“This is the way of a woman who takes part in adultery: She acts as if she had eaten and washed her face; she says, ‘I haven’t done anything wrong.’

This is what the Lord says about the people of Judah: “They really love to wander from me; they don’t stop themselves from leaving me. So now the Lord will not accept them. He will now remember the evil they do and will punish them for their sins.”

“When you tell the people of Judah these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the Lord said these terrible things to us? What have we done wrong? What sin have we done against the Lord our God?’

It is so easy for you to change your mind. Even Egypt will let you down, as Assyria let you down.

“Look up to the bare hilltops, Judah. Is there any place where you have not been a prostitute? You have sat by the road waiting for lovers, like an Arab in the desert. You made the land unclean, because you did evil and were like a prostitute.

You are an unfaithful daughter. How long will you wander before you come home? The Lord has made something new happen in the land: A woman will go seeking a man.”

The people of Judah have built places of worship at Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom. There they burned their own sons and daughters as sacrifices, something I never commanded. It never even entered my mind.

Instead, they were stubborn and followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them to do.

When the Lord began speaking through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, and marry an unfaithful woman and have unfaithful children, because the people in this country have been completely unfaithful to the Lord.”

But the man, wanting to show the importance of his question, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

We know that the law’s commands are for those who have the law. This stops all excuses and brings the whole world under God’s judgment,




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