Jeremiah 2:8

Your priests also did not say, ‘◄Where is Yahweh now?/Yahweh should be helping us now!►’ [RHQ] Those who teach/explain my laws do not want to know me, and your leaders have rebelled against me. Your prophets gave you messages from their god Baal, and they worship worthless idols.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

In Context

7And when I brought you into a very fertile land, in order that you could enjoy all the fruit and other good things that you would harvest, you caused the land that I promised to give to you to be unfit for me and to become disgusting/detestable to me.

9“So, I will accuse you in court. In future years, I will say what your children and your grandchildren have done that is wrong. That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said that it will happen.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:10The tribe of Levi will teach the Israeli people [DOU] your rules and regulations, and they are the ones who will burn incense and who will completely burn on the altar the offerings that the people bring.

1 Samuel 12:21Do not abandon Yahweh and worship useless idols. They cannot help you or save you from your enemies, because they are truly useless.

1 Kings 18:29They continued calling out to Baal all afternoon. But there was no reply, no answer, no god who paid attention.

Job 35:10But ◄no one/none of them► calls out to God, saying ‘Why does God, my creator, not help me? He should enable me to sing joyful songs, instead of very sad songs, during the night.

Isaiah 29:10Because Yahweh has prevented the prophets [DOU] from understanding and telling you his messages, it is as though he has caused you to be fast/deeply asleep.

Isaiah 56:9“You surrounding nations have armies that are like [MET] animals in the forest; come and attack/destroy Israel!

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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