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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.2.2"><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.2.2"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I remember the devotion of your youth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.2.2"><span class="content">how as a bride you loved me</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.2.2"><span class="content">and followed me through the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.2.2"><span class="content">through a land not sown.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Israel was holy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.2.3"><span class="content">the firstfruits of his harvest;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.2.3"><span class="content">all who devoured her were held guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.2.3"><span class="content">and disaster overtook them,&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.2.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you descendants of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.2.4"><span class="content">all you clans of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.2.5"><span class="content">&#8220;What fault did your ancestors find in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.2.5"><span class="content">that they strayed so far from me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.2.5"><span class="content">They followed worthless idols</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.2.5"><span class="content">and became worthless themselves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They did not ask, &#8216;Where is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.2.6"><span class="content">who brought us up out of Egypt</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.2.6"><span class="content">and led us through the barren wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.2.6"><span class="content">through a land of deserts and ravines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.2.6"><span class="content">a land of drought and utter darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.2.6"><span class="content">a land where no one travels and no one lives?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I brought you into a fertile land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.2.7"><span class="content">to eat its fruit and rich produce.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.2.7"><span class="content">But you came and defiled my land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.2.7"><span class="content">and made my inheritance detestable.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The priests did not ask,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.2.8"><span class="content">&#8216;Where is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.2.8"><span class="content">Those who deal with the law did not know me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.2.8"><span class="content">the leaders rebelled against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.2.8"><span class="content">The prophets prophesied by Baal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.2.8"><span class="content">following worthless idols.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I bring charges against you again,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.2.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.2.9"><span class="content">&#8220;And I will bring charges against your children&#8217;s children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and look,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.2.10"><span class="content">send to Kedar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">In the Syro-Arabian desert</span></span></span><span class="content"> and observe closely;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.2.10"><span class="content">see if there has ever been anything like this:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Has a nation ever changed its gods?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.2.11"><span class="content">(Yet they are not gods at all.)</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.2.11"><span class="content">But my people have exchanged their glorious God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.2.11"><span class="content">for worthless idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Be appalled at this, you heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.2.12"><span class="content">and shudder with great horror,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.2.12"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;My people have committed two sins:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.2.13"><span class="content">They have forsaken me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.2.13"><span class="content">the spring of living water,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.2.13"><span class="content">and have dug their own cisterns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.2.13"><span class="content">broken cisterns that cannot hold water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.2.14"><span class="content">Why then has he become plunder?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Lions have roared;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.2.15"><span class="content">they have growled at him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.2.15"><span class="content">They have laid waste his land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.2.15"><span class="content">his towns are burned and deserted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.2.16"><span class="content">have cracked your skull.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Have you not brought this on yourselves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.2.17"><span class="content">by forsaking the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.2.17"><span class="content">when he led you in the way?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now why go to Egypt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.2.18"><span class="content">to drink water from the Nile</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew <span class="tl">Shihor</span>; that is, a branch of the Nile</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.2.18"><span class="content">And why go to Assyria</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.2.18"><span class="content">to drink water from the Euphrates?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your wickedness will punish you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.2.19"><span class="content">your backsliding will rebuke you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.2.19"><span class="content">Consider then and realize</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.2.19"><span class="content">how evil and bitter it is for you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.2.19"><span class="content">when you forsake the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.2.19"><span class="content">and have no awe of me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.2.19"><span class="content">declares the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div>
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