Jeremiah 2:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God while he was leading you along the way? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God when He led you in the way? American Standard Version (1901) Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way? Common English Bible Haven’t you brought this on yourself by abandoning the LORD your God, who has directed your paths? Catholic Public Domain Version Has this not been done to you because you abandoned the Lord your God, in that time when he was leading you by the way? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, at that time when he led thee by the way? |
‘As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you for ever.
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, ‘Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
because they turned aside from following him and did not understand any of his ways
In my experience, those who plough injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Discipline is harsh for the one who leaves the path; the one who hates correction will die.
Oh sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned the Lord; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they have turned their backs on him.
transgression and deception against the Lord, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.
And when you ask yourself, ‘Why have these things happened to me? ’ it is because of your great guilt that your skirts have been stripped off, your body exposed.
because they have abandoned me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
For my people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves #– # cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
Your way and your actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. It is very bitter, because it has reached your heart!
because of the evil they committed to anger me, by going and burning incense to serve other gods that they, you, and your ancestors did not know.
Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you. Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,
I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid my face from them.
All this will happen because of Jacob’s rebellion and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Isn’t it Jerusalem?
But if you don’t do this, you will certainly sin against the Lord; be sure your sin will catch up with you.
He found him in a desolate land, in a barren, howling wilderness; he surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the pupil of his eye.
When the Lord saw this, he despised them, angered by his sons and daughters.