OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 19

Jeremiah 2:19

“Your own wickedness will correct you,

and your backsliding will rebuke you.

Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing,

that you have forsaken the LORD your God,

and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, GOD^† of Armies.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Jeremiah 2:19 in context

Jeremiah 2:16–22

The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself,

in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?

Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor?

Or why do you go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Selected verse

“Your own wickedness will correct you,

and your backsliding will rebuke you.

Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing,

that you have forsaken the LORD your God,

and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, GOD^† of Armies.

“For long ago I broke off your yoke,

and burst your bonds.

You said, ‘I will not serve;’

for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself,

playing the prostitute.

Yet I had planted you a noble vine,

a pure and faithful seed.

How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

For though you wash yourself with lye,

and use much soap,

yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD.

Notes from World English Bible Updated

When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).

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