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.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
9Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:10They shall declare your ordinances to Jacob, and your law to Israel: they shall place incense in the time of your wrath continually upon your altar.
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 + 18:29 Gr. the sacrifice going up. offering of the sacrifice, that Eliu the Thesbite 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, who appoints the night-watches;
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 you⌃ beasts of the field, come, devour, all you⌃ 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 →