Jeremiah 2
2:1And came to pass the word of the lord to me, saying,
2:2Go, and yell into the ears of Jerusalem! saying, Thus says the lord, I remembered the mercy of your youth, and the love of your consecration, for you to follow after the holy one of Israel, says the lord;
2:3Holy Israel to the lord, the beginning of his offspring. All the ones devouring him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the lord.
2:4Hear the word of the lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel!
2:5Thus says the lord, What trespass did your fathers find in me that they left far from me, and went after the vain things, and acted in folly?
2:6And they said not, Where is the lord, the one directing us from out of the land of Egypt, the one steering us in the wilderness, in a vast and untrodden land, in a land waterless and unfruitful, in a land in which no man traveled through in it, and no man dwelt there?
2:7And I led you unto Carmel, to eat the fruits of it, and the good things of it. And you entered, and defiled my land; and my inheritance you made into an abomination.
2:8The priests said not, Where is the lord? And the ones resisting the law have not made acknowledgment to me; and the shepherds were impious to me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went after unprofitable things.
2:9On account of this, still I will arbitrate for you, says the lord; and for the sons of your sons I will arbitrate.
2:10For go into the islands of the Chittim, and see! And send unto Kedar, and comprehend exceedingly! And see! if such things have taken place
2:11if nations changed their gods, and these are not gods! But my people changed their glory by which they do not derive benefit.
2:12The heaven is amazed by this, and shuddered over it much, exceedingly, says the lord.
2:13For two and wicked things my people did to me; they abandoned the spring of water of life, and they dug for themselves cisterns having been broken, the ones which are not able to hold water.
2:14Is Israel a servant or is he native-born? Why did he become for plunder?
2:15Upon him the lions roar, and the ones who ordered his land for extinction gave out their voice. And his cities they razed so as for no one to dwell.
2:16And the sons of Memphis and Tahapanhes knew you, and were mocking you.
2:17Were not these things done to you for your forsaking me, says the lord your God?
2:18And now, what is it to you and the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Sihor? And what is it to you in the way of the Assyrians, to drink water of the rivers?
2:19Your defection shall correct you, and your evil shall reprove you. And know and see that your forsaking me is bitter to you! says the lord your God. And I thought not well in you, says the lord your God.
2:20For from the eon you broke your yoke, and tore up your bonds. And you said, I will not serve, but I will go upon every high hill, and underneath every shady tree; there I will disperse in my harlotry.
2:21But I planted you a grapevine bearing fruit -- all true. How are you turned into bitterness -- a strange grapevine?
2:22If you should wash in bleach, and should multiply soap to yourself, still you are spotted in your iniquities before me, says the lord.
2:23How will you say, I was not defiled, and I went not after Baal? Behold your ways in the cemetery, and know what you did! Her voice shrieks in the evening.
2:24Her ways widen over waters of the wilderness; in the desires of her soul she was being carried by the wind; she was delivered up to them, who will turn her? All the ones seeking her shall not tire; in her humiliation they shall find her.
2:25Turn your foot from the rough way, and your throat from thirst! But she said, I will be manly. For I loved strangers, and went after them.
2:26As shame of a thief whenever he should be captured, so shall the sons of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their rulers, and their priests, and their prophets.
2:27They said to the tree that, You are my father; and to the stone, You engendered me. And they turned their backs against me, and not their faces. And in the time of their evils they shall say, Rise up and deliver us!
2:28And where are your gods which you made for yourself? Shall they rise up and deliver you in the time of your ill-treatment, no. For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the corridors of Jerusalem, they sacrificed to Baal.
2:29Why do you speak to me? You all acted impious, and you all acted lawlessly against me, says the lord.
2:30In vain I struck your children. They received not correction. A sword devoured your prophets, as a lion annihilating. And you feared not.
2:31Hear the word of the lord! Thus says the lord, Did I become a wilderness to Israel, or a land being made barren? Why said my people, We will not be lorded over, and we shall not come to you any longer?
2:32Will the bride forget her bridal ornament, and the virgin her breastband? But my people forgot me for days which there is no number.
2:33What good device will you yet apply in your ways to seek affection? It will not be thus. But even you did wicked to defile your ways.
2:34And in your hands was found blood of innocent souls. I found them not in ditches, but upon every oak.
2:35And you said, I am innocent, but turn his rage from me! Behold, I judge against you, in your saying, I sinned not.
2:36For you are disdained very much of the repeating a second time of your ways. And from Egypt you shall be disgraced, as you were disgraced by Assyria.
2:37For even from here you shall go forth, and your hands will be upon your head. For the lord thrusted away your hope, and you shall not be prosperous in it.