Jeremiah 2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Jeremiah 2God Pleads with Israel to Repent

1The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2 transgressed against me;

the prophets prophesied by Baal

and went after things that do not profit.

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Have I been a wilderness to Israel

or a land of thick darkness?

Why then do my people say, “We are free;

we will come to you no more”?

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35 v 23 ; Jer 25.31; 1 Jn 1.8, 10you say, “I am innocent;

surely his anger has turned from me.”

Now I am bringing you to judgment

for saying, “I have not sinned.”

36 v 23 ; 2 Chr 28.16, 20, 21; Isa 30.3; Hos 12.1Why do you go about so much

to change your way?

You shall be put to shame by Egypt

as you were put to shame by Assyria.

37 2 Sam 13.19; Jer 37.7–10 From there also you will come away

with your hands on your head,

for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,

and you will not prosper through them.