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Jeremiah 2:30 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. "

Jeremiah 2:30

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28 “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 you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.

29 “Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says the LORD.

30 “I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

31 Generation, consider the LORD’s word. 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’?

32 “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

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Jeremiah 2:1

"The LORD’s word came to me, saying,"

Jeremiah 2:2

"“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown."

Jeremiah 2:3

"Israel was holiness to the LORD, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,”’ says the LORD.”"

Jeremiah 2:4

"Hear the LORD’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!"

Jeremiah 2:5

"The LORD says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?"

Jeremiah 2:6

"They didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD 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 no one passed through, and where no man lived?’"

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