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Jeremiah 2:23

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“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there,

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For the Jews it was a time of happiness and joy, gladness and honor.

In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.

When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.

Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth;

“This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’

This is what the Lord says about this people: “They greatly love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the Lord does not accept them; he will now remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.”

“When you tell these people all this and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?’

Why do you go about so much, changing your ways? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria.

“Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

How long will you wander, unfaithful Daughter Israel? The Lord will create a new thing on earth— the woman will return to the man.”

They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.”

When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.”

But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.




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