Jeremiah 2:14-28 - Consequences Of Apostasy
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Was he born into slavery?
Why else has he become a prey?
they have roared loudly.
They have laid waste his land.
His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
have also broken your skull.
by abandoning the Lord your God
while He was leading you along the way?
by traveling along the way to Egypt
to drink the waters of the Nile?
What will you gain
by traveling along the way to Assyria
to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
your own apostasies will reprimand you.
Think it over and see how evil and bitter
for you to abandon the Lord your God
and to have no fear of Me.
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.
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You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree
you lie down like a prostitute.
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from the very best seed.
How then could you turn into
a degenerate, foreign vine?
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and use a great amount of soap,
the stain of your sin is still in front of Me.
This is the Lord God’s declaration.
I have not followed the Baals”?
Look at your behavior in the valley;
acknowledge what you have done.
You are a swift young camel
twisting and turning on her way,
She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire.
Who can control her passion?
All who look for her will not become tired;
they will find her in her mating season.
and your throat from thirst.
But you say, “It’s hopeless;
I love strangers,
and I will continue to follow them.”
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so the house of Israel has been put to shame.
They, their kings, their officials,
their priests, and their prophets
and to a stone, “You gave birth to me.”
For they have turned their back to Me
and not their face,
yet in their time of disaster
“Rise up and save us!”
Let them rise up and save you
in your time of disaster if they can,
for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah.