LEB JER section

The Unfaithfulness of Israel’s Ancestors

4 Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the clans[fn] of the house of Israel.

5 Thus says Yahweh:“What injustice did your ancestors[fn] find in me
- that they were far from me,
and they went after the vanity,
- and they became vain?
- 6  ‘Where is Yahweh,
the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
- the one who led us in the desert,[fn]
in a land of desert plains and gorges,[fn]
- in a land of dryness and deep darkness,
in a land[fn]
- and no human lives there?’
- 7  to eat its fruit, and its good things.[fn]
But you entered and defiled my land,
- and my inheritance you made a detestable thing.[fn]
- 8 is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law did not know me,
and the shepherds have[fn]
- and the prophets prophesied by Baal,
and they went after things which do not profit.

2:4 Or “families”

2:5 Or “fathers”

2:5 Or “wilderness”

2:5 Hebrew “gorge”

2:5 Literally “no man passes through in it”

2:5 Hebrew “good thing”

2:5 Or “abomination”

2:5 Literally “broken with me”

LEB by section JER 2:4