| Jeremiah 2 - Versions
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| Jeremiah 2 Text (WEB)
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- The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
- "Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
- Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,"' says Yahweh."
- Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!
- Thus says Yahweh, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
- Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'
- I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
- The priests didn't say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and those who handle the law didn't know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
- "Therefore I will yet contend with you," says Yahweh, "and I will contend with your children's children.
- For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.
- Has a nation changed [its] gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
- "Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate," says Yahweh.
- "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?
- The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
- The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
- "Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
- Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
- "Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
- "For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve;' for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
- Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
- For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord Yahweh.
- "How can you say, 'I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. [You are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
- a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
- "Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.'
- As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
- who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise, and save us.'
- "But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.
- "Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says Yahweh.
- "I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Generation, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'
- "Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
- How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.
- Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
- "Yet you said, 'I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.' "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'
- Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
- From there also you shall go forth, with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
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| Jeremiah 2 Text (Hebrew)
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- ויהי דבר־יהוה אלי לאמר׃
- הלך וקראת באזני ירושלם לאמר כה אמר יהוה זכרתי לך חסד נעוריך אהבת כלולתיך לכתך אחרי במדבר בארץ לא זרועה׃
- קדש ישראל ליהוה ראשית תבואתהק כל־אכליו יאשמו רעה תבא אליהם נאם־יהוה׃ ף
- שמעו דבר־יהוה בית יעקב וכל־משפחות בית ישראל׃
- כה אמר יהוה מה־מצאו אבותיכם בי עול כי רחקו מעלי וילכו אחרי ההבל ויהבלו׃
- ולא אמרו איה יהוה המעלה אתנו מארץ מצרים המוליך אתנו במדבר בארץ ערבה ושוחה בארץ ציה וצלמות בארץ לא־עבר בה איש ולא־ישב אדם שם׃
- ואביא אתכם אל־ארץ הכרמל לאכל פריה וטובה ותבאו ותטמאו את־ארצי ונחלתי שמתם לתועבה׃
- הכהנים לא אמרו איה יהוה ותפשי התורה לא ידעוני והרעים פשעו בי והנביאים נבאו בבעל ואחרי לא־יועלו הלכו׃
- לכן עד אריב אתכם נאם־יהוה ואת־בני בניכם אריב׃
- כי עברו איי כתיים וראו וקדר שלחו והתבוננו מאד וראו הן היתה כזאת׃
- ההימיר גוי אלהים והמה לא אלהים ועמי המיר כבודו בלוא יועיל׃
- שמו שמים על־זאת ושערו חרבו מאד נאם־יהוה׃
- כי־שתים רעות עשה עמי אתי עזבו מקור מים חיים לחצב להם בארות בארת נשברים אשר לא־יכלו המים׃
- העבד ישראל אם־יליד בית הוא מדוע היה לבז׃
- עליו ישאגו כפרים נתנו קולם וישיתו ארצו לשמה עריו מבלי ישב׃
- גם־בני־נף ירעוך קדקד׃
- הלוא־זאת תעשה־לך עזבך את־יהוה אלהיך בעת מוליךך בדרך׃
- ועתה מה־לך לדרך מצרים לשתות מי שחור ומה־לך לדרך אשור לשתות מי נהר׃
- תיסרך רעתך ומשבותיך תוכחך ודעי וראי כי־רע ומר עזבך את־יהוה אלהיך ולא פחדתי אליך נאם־אדני יהוה צבאות׃
- כי מעולם שברתי עלך נתקתי מוסרתיך ותאמרי לא כי על־כל־גבעה גבהה ותחת כל־עץ רעןן את צעה זנה׃
- ואנכי נטעתיך שרק כלה זרע אמת ואיך נהפכת לי סורי הגפן נכריה׃
- כי אם־תכבסי בנתר ותרבי־לך ברית נכתם עונך לפני נאם אדני יהוה׃
- איך תאמרי לא נטמאתי אחרי הבעלים לא הלכתי ראי דרךך בגיא דעי מה עשית בכרה קלה משרכת דרכיה׃
- פרה למד מדבר באות שאפה רוח תאנתה מי ישיבנה כל־מבקשיה לא ייעפו בחדשה ימצאונה׃
- מנעי רגלך מיחף מצמאה ותאמרי נואש לוא כי־אהבתי זרים ואחריהם אלך׃
- כבשת גנב כי ימצא כן הבישו בית ישראל המה מלכיהם שריהם וכהניהם ונביאיהם׃
- אמרים לעץ אבי אתה ולאבן את כי־פנו אלי ערף ולא פנים ובעת רעתם יאמרו קומה והושיענו׃
- ואיה אלהיך אשר עשית לך יקומו אם־יושיעוך בעת רעתך כי מספר עריך היו אלהיך יהודה׃ ס
- למה תריבו אלי כלכם פשעתם בי נאם־יהוה׃
- לשוא הכיתי את־בניכם מוסר לא לקחו אכלה חרבכם נביאיכם כאריה משחית׃
- הדור אתם ראו דבר־יהוה המדבר הייתי לישראל אם ארץ מאפליה מדוע אמרו עמי רדנו לוא־נבוא עוד אליך׃
- התשכח בתולה עדיה כלה קשריה ועמי שכחוני ימים אין מספר׃
- מה־תיטבי דרךך לבקש אהבה לכן גם את־הרעות את־דרכיך׃
- גם בכנפיך נמצאו דם נפשות אביונים נקיים לא־במחתרת מצאתים כי על־כל־אלה׃
- ותאמרי כי נקיתי אך שב אפו ממני הנני נשפט אותך על־אמרך לא חטאתי׃
- מה־תזלי מאד לשנות את־דרךך גם ממצרים תבושי כאשר־בשת מאשור׃
- גם מאת זה תצאי וידיך על־ראשך כי־מאס יהוה במבטחיך ולא תצליחי להם׃
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| Jeremiah 2 Text (Latin)
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- Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens :
- Vade, et clama in auribus Jerusalem, dicens : Hæc dicit Dominus : Recordatus sum tui, miserans adolescentiam tuam, et caritatem desponsationis tuæ, quando secuta es me in deserto, in terra quæ non seminatur.
- Sanctus Israël Domino, primitiæ frugum ejus : omnes qui devorant eum delinquunt : mala venient super eos, dicit Dominus.
- Audite verbum Domini, domus Jacob, et omnes cognationes domus Israël.
- Hæc dicit Dominus : Quid invenerunt patres vestri in me iniquitatis, quia elongaverunt a me, et ambulaverunt post vanitatem, et vani facti sunt ?
- Et non dixerunt : Ubi est Dominus qui ascendere nos fecit de terra Ægypti : qui traduxit nos per desertum, per terram inhabitabilem et inviam, per terram sitis, et imaginem mortis, per terram in qua non ambulavit vir, neque habitavit homo ?
- Et induxi vos in terram Carmeli, ut comederetis fructum ejus et optima illius : et ingressi contaminastis terram meam, et hæreditatem meam posuistis in abominationem.
- Sacerdotes non dixerunt : Ubi est Dominus ? et tenentes legem nescierunt me, et pastores prævaricati sunt in me, et prophetæ prophetaverunt in Baal, et idola secuti sunt.
- Propterea adhuc judicio contendam vobiscum, ait Dominus, et cum filiis vestris disceptabo.
- Transite ad insulas Cethim, et videte : et in Cedar mittite, et considerate vehementer : et videte si factum est hujuscemodi :
- si mutavit gens deos suos, et certe ipsi non sunt dii : populus vero meus mutavit gloriam suam in idolum.
- Obstupescite, cæli, super hoc : et portæ ejus, desolamini vehementer, dicit Dominus.
- Duo enim mala fecit populus meus : me derelinquerunt fontem aquæ vivæ, et foderunt sibi cisternas, cisternas dissipatas, quia continere non valent aquas.
- Numquid servus est Israël, aut vernaculus ? quare ergo factus est in prædam ?
- Super eum rugierunt leones, et dederunt vocem suam : posuerunt terram ejus in solitudinem, civitates ejus exustæ sunt, et non est qui habitet in eis.
- Filii quoque Mempheos et Taphnes constupraverunt te usque ad verticem.
- Numquid non istud factum est tibi, quia dereliquisti Dominum Deum tuum eo tempore quo ducebat te per viam ?
- Et nunc quid tibi vis in via Ægypti, ut bibas aquam turbidam ? et quid tibi cum via Assyriorum, ut bibas aquam fluminis ?
- Arguet te malitia tua, et aversio tua increpabit te. Scito et vide, quia malum et amarum est reliquisse te Dominum Deum tuum, et non esse timorem mei apud te, dicit Dominus Deus exercituum.
- A sæculo confregisti jugum meum, rupisti vincula mea, et dixisti : Non serviam. In omni enim colle sublimi, et sub omni ligno frondoso, tu prosternebaris meretrix.
- Ego autem plantavi te vineam electam, omne semen verum : quomodo ergo conversa es mihi in pravum, vinea aliena ?
- Si laveris te nitro, et multiplicaveris tibi herbam borith, maculata es in iniquitate tua coram me, dicit Dominus Deus.
- Quomodo dicis : Non sum polluta,post Baalim non ambulavi ? Vide vias tuas in convalle, scito quid feceris : cursor levis explicans vias suas.
- Onager assuetus in solitudine, in desiderio animæ suæ attraxit ventum amoris sui : nullus avertet eam, omnes qui quærunt eam non deficient : in menstruis ejus invenient eam.
- Prohibe pedem tuum a nuditate, et guttur tuum a siti. Et dixisti : Desperavi, nequaquam faciam : adamavi quippe alienos, et post eos ambulabo.
- Quomodo confunditur fur quando deprehenditur, sic confusi sunt domus Israël, ipsi et reges eorum, principes, et sacerdotes, et prophetæ eorum,
- dicentes ligno : Pater meus es tu : et lapidi : Tu me genuisti. Verterunt ad me tergum et non faciem, et in tempore afflictionis suæ dicent : Surge, et libera nos.
- Ubi sunt dii tui quos fecisti tibi ? surgant, et liberent te in tempore afflictionis tuæ : secundum numerum quippe civitatum tuarum erant dii tui, Juda !
- Quid vultis mecum judicio contendere ? omnes dereliquistis me, dicit Dominus.
- Frustra percussi filios vestros, disciplinam non receperunt : devoravit gladius vester prophetas vestros : quasi leo vastator
- generatio vestra. Videte verbum Domini : Numquid solitudo factus sum Israëli, aut terra serotina ? Quare ergo dixit populus meus : Recessimus, non veniemus ultra ad te ?
- Numquid obliviscetur virgo ornamenti sui, aut sponsa fasciæ pectoralis suæ ? Populus vero meus oblitus est mei diebus innumeris.
- Quid niteris bonam ostendere viam tuam, ad quærendam dilectionem, quæ insuper et malitias tuas docuisti vias tuas,
- et in alis tuis inventus est sanguis animarum pauperum et innocentum ? Non in fossis inveni eos, sed in omnibus quæ supra memoravi.
- Et dixisti : Absque peccato et innocens ego sum, et propterea avertatur furor tuus a me. Ecce ego judicio contendam tecum, eo quod dixeris : Non peccavi.
- Quam vilis facta es nimis, iterans vias tuas ! Et ab Ægypto confunderis, sicut confusa es ab Assur.
- Nam et ab ista egredieris, et manus tuæ erunt super caput tuum, quoniam obtrivit Dominus confidentiam tuam : et nihil habebis prosperum in ea.
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| Jeremiah 2 Text (KJV)
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- Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
- Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
- Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
- Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
- Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
- And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
- The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
- Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
- For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
- Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
- Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
- For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
- The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
- Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
- Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
- And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
- Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
- For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
- Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
- How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
- A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
- Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
- As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
- Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
- But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
- Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
- In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
- Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
- Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
- Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
- Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
- Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
- Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
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