Jeremiah 2

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

in a land that was not sown.

Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”

Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

and have become worthless?

and where no man lived?’

and made my heritage an abomination.

and followed things that do not profit.

“and I will contend with your children’s children.

and see if there has been such a thing.

But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.

and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Why has he become a captive?

His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

playing the prostitute.

How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

and I will go after them.’

they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,

but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’

for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.

You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.

like a destroying lion.

We will come to you no more?’

Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.

but it is because of all these things.

because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

as you were ashamed of Assyria.

and you won’t prosper with them.