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OET-LV and_he/it_was the_word of_YHWH to_me to_say.
UHB וַיְהִ֥י דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵאמֹֽר׃ ‡
(vayəhiy dəⱱar-yhwh ʼēlay lēʼmor.)
Key: khaki:verbs, green:YHWH.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
BrLXX No BrLXX JER 2:1 verse available
BrTr No BrTr JER 2:1 verse available
ULT And the word of Yahweh was to me, saying,
UST Yahweh gave me another message
BSB § Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
OEB There came to me this message from Jehovah:
WEBBE The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
WMBB (Same as above)
NET The Lord spoke to me. He said:
LSV And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
FBV The Lord's message came to me, saying,
T4T Yahweh gave me another message
LEB And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,[fn]
2:1 Literally “to say”
BBE And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Moff No Moff JER book available
JPS And the word of the LORD came to me, saying:
ASV And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
DRA And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
YLT And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
Drby And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
RV And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Wbstr Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
KJB-1769 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
(Moreover/What's_more the word of the LORD came to me, saying, )
KJB-1611 ¶ Moreouer, the word of the LORD came to me, saying;
(¶ Moreover/What's_more, the word of the LORD came to me, saying;)
Bshps Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
(Moreover/What's_more, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying:)
Gnva Moreover, the woorde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
(Moreover/What's_more, the woorde of the Lord came unto me, saying, )
Cvdl Morouer, the worde of the LORDE comaunded me thus:
(Moreover/What's_more, the word of the LORD commanded me thus:)
Wyc And the word of the Lord was maad to me,
(And the word of the Lord was made to me,)
Luth Und des HErr’s Wort geschah zu mir und sprach:
(And the LORD’s Wort happened to to_me and spoke:)
ClVg Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens:
(And done it_is the_word Master to me, saying: )
2:1-13 Jeremiah used images of marriage, infidelity, and divorce to represent Judah’s spiritual apostasy.
The Broken Covenant
A central issue in the Lord’s relationship with Israel was whether the covenant made at Sinai (see Exod 20–24), which the people had broken, was still valid. In the politics of the ancient Near East, covenantal agreements were common. When one of the partners in a covenant broke the terms of the agreement, the result was usually war. The Sinai covenant was unique because the Lord was one of the covenant partners. The covenant was patterned after secular covenants—it required the Lord and Israel to seal the agreement with solemn oaths of faithfulness (Exod 24:1-11; Deut 29–30; Josh 8:30-35; 24:1-28). The Lord always remained faithful to his covenant commitment, but the Israelite people repeatedly broke the covenant as Canaanite polytheism lured them away from the Lord. They broke the laws banning the worship of idols, engaged in immoral sexual rituals, mistreated the poor and needy, and ignored God’s requirements for righteousness.
For centuries, the Israelites swung back and forth between worship of the Lord God and worship of Canaanite deities. Whenever they repented and returned to the Lord, he mercifully took them back into the covenant relationship. However, by the mid-700s BC, the Israelites of the northern kingdom of Israel had become stubbornly resolute in their idol worship. So the Lord let the Assyrians destroy the kingdom and take many people into captivity.
At the time of Jeremiah’s ministry, over one hundred years later, Judah was headed down the same road. Jeremiah likened this tragedy to the breakup of a marriage relationship, much as Hosea had pictured it earlier for Israel (Jer 2–3; cp. Hos 1–2). Israel’s bond with the Lord is portrayed as a marriage in which the bride forsook her husband and took up with other lovers. The Lord charged his people with violating the marriage bond and acting like a prostitute (Jer 3:1), and he warned them to return to him or face destruction. God could no longer say of the Israelites, “I will be their God, and they will be my people” (see Jer 31:33; see also Exod 6:7; Hos 1:9).
Just as breaking the covenant had cost the northern kingdom its existence, so it later destroyed the kingdom of Judah. Jerusalem was torn apart, and the Temple was destroyed. This punishment cut deeply and painfully into God’s heart. The ever-merciful Lord promised a new covenant to replace the broken Sinai covenant (Jer 31:31-34).
Passages for Further Study
Exod 6:7; Jer 2:1–3:10; 4:4; 22:8-9; 31:31-34; Ezek 16:1-63; Hos 2:2-13; 3:1; 4:1–5:15
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
(Occurrence 0) The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was word YHWH to=me to=say )
This idiom is used to introduce a special message from God. See how you translated similar words in Jeremiah 1:4. Alternate translation: “Yahweh gave me a message. He said,” or “Yahweh spoke this message to me:”