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2.28
JEREMIAH
- For according to the number of thy cities
- Are thy gods, O Judah.
- 29Wherefore will ye contend with Me?
- Ye all have transgressed against Me,
- Saith the Lord.
- 30In vain have I smitten your children—
- They received no correction;
- Your sword hath devoured your prophets,
- Like a destroying lion.
- 31O generation, see ye the word of the Lord:
- Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?
- Or a land of thick darkness?
- Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large;
- We will come no more unto Thee'?
- 32Can a maid forget her ornaments,
- Or a bride her attire?
- Yet My people have forgotten Me
- Days without number.
- 33How trimmest thou thy way
- To seek love!
- Therefore—even the wicked women
- Hast thou taught thy ways;
- 34Also in thy skirts is found the blood
- Of the souls of the innocent poor;
- Thou didst not find them breaking in;
- Yet for all these things
- 35Thou saidst: 'I am innocent;
- Surely His anger is turned away from me'—
- Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee,
- Because thou sayest: 'I have not sinned.'
- 36How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself
- To change thy way?
- Thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also,
- As thou wast ashamed of Asshur.
- 37From him also shalt thou go forth,
- With thy hands upon thy head;
- For the Lord hath rejected them in whom thou didst trust,
- And thou shalt not prosper in them.
- 3. . . saying:
- If a man put away his wife,
- And she go from him,
- And become another man's,
- May he return unto her again?
- Will not that land be greatly polluted?
- But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers;
- And wouldest thou yet return to Me?
- Saith the Lord.
- 2Lift up thine eyes unto the high hills, and see:
- Where hast thou not been lain with?
- By the ways hast thou sat for them,
- As an Arabian in the wilderness;
- And thou hast polluted the land
- With thy harlotries and with thy wickedness.
- 3Therefore the showers have been withheld,
- And there hath been no latter rain;
- Yet thou hadst a harlot's forehead,
- Thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- 4Didst thou not just now cry unto Me: 'My father,
- Thou art the friend of my youth.
- 5Will He bear grudge for ever?
- Will He keep it to the end?'
- Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done evil things,
- And hast had thy way.
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