Jeremiah 2:7

And I brought you into an eretz hacarmel, 1 to eat the pri thereof and the tovah thereof; 1 but when ye entered, ye made My land tameh, 1 and made My nachalah a to'evah. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

In Context

6Neither did they ask: Where is Hashem 1 that brought us up out of Eretz Mitzrayim, 1 that led us through the midbar, 1 through an eretz of deserts and pits, 1 through an eretz tziyyah (land of drought) and tzalmavet, 1 through eretz that no ish passed through, 1 where no adam dwelt? 1

8The Kohanim asked not: Where is Hashem? 1 And they that handle the Torah had no da'as of Me; 1 the ro'im also rebelled against Me, 1 and the nevi'im prophesied by Ba'al, 1 and walked after worthless things. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:25And HaAretz became tamei; therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and HaAretz itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Numbers 14:7And they spoke unto Kol Adat Bnei Yisroel, saying, HaAretz, which we passed through to explore it, is a tovah haaretz me'od me'od.

Deuteronomy 6:10And it shall be, when Hashem Eloheicha shall have brought thee into ha'aretz He swore unto Avoteicha, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya'akov, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

Deuteronomy 8:7For Hashem Eloheicha bringeth thee into an eretz tovah, a land of brooks of mayim, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

Deuteronomy 11:10For ha'aretz, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as Eretz Mitzrayim, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy zera, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a gan (garden) of herbs:

Deuteronomy 32:9For Hashemʼs chelek is His people; 1 Ya'akov is the chevel (allotment) of His nachalah. 1

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 →

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