I brought you into a plentiful land
to eat its fruit and its goodness;
but when you entered, you defiled my land,
and made my heritage an abomination.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 2:7 in context
Jeremiah 2:4–10
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Hear the LORD’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!
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The LORD says,
“What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me,
that they have gone far from me,
and have walked after worthless vanity,
and have become worthless?
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They didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and of pits,
through a land of drought and of the shadow of death,
through a land that no one passed through,
and where no man lived?’
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Selected verse
I brought you into a plentiful land
to eat its fruit and its goodness;
but when you entered, you defiled my land,
and made my heritage an abomination.
8
The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD?’
and those who handle the law didn’t know me.
The rulers also transgressed against me,
and the prophets prophesied by Baal
and followed things that do not profit.
9
“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the LORD,
“and I will contend with your children’s children.
10
For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see.
Send to Kedar, and consider diligently,
and see if there has been such a thing.
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