Jeremiah 2:8
The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
9Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children’s children.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:10They shall declare thine ordinances to Jacob, 1 And thy law to Israel: 1 They shall place incense in the time of thy wrath 1 Continually upon thine altar. 1
1 Samuel 12:21And turn not aside after the gods that are nothing, who will do nothing, and will not deliver you, because they are nothing.
1 Kings 18:29And they prophesied until the evening came; and it came to pass as it was the time of the offering of the sacrifice, that Elijah the Tishbite spoke to the prophets of the abominations, saying, Stand by for the present, and I will offer my sacrifice. And they stood aside and departed.
Job 35:10But none said, Where is God that made me, 1 Who appoints the night watches; 1
Isaiah 29:10For the Lord has made you to drink a spirit of deep sleep; and he shall close their eyes, and the eyes of their prophets and of their rulers, who see secret things.
Isaiah 56:9All ye beasts of the field, come, devour, all ye beasts of the forest.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:2-9
Jeremiah's First Message; The Divine Goodness to Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 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. 3 Israel was holiness unto the Lord , and the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord . 4 Hear ye the word of the… Read the whole commentary →