Go proclaim to Jerusalem: Thus said GOD:I accounted to your favorThe devotion of your youth,Your love as a bride—How you followed Me in the wilderness,In a land not sown.
They never asked themselves, “Where is GOD,Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,Who led us through the wilderness,A land of deserts and pits,A land of drought and darkness,A land nobody had traversed,Where no human being had dwelt?”
The priests never asked themselves, “Where is GOD?”The guardians of the Teaching ignored Me;The rulersarulers Lit. “shepherds”; cf. 3.15; 23.1ff. rebelled against Me,And the prophets prophesied by BaalAnd followed what can do no good.
Word-by-Word Analysis
הכהנים
130
לא
31
אמרו
247
איה
16
יהוה
26
ותפשי
796
התורה
616
לא
31
ידעוני
150
והרעים
331
פשעו
456
בי
12
והנבאים
114
נבאו
59
בבעל
104
ואחרי
225
לאיועלו
153
הלכו
61
Jeremiah 2:9
Gematria: 1769
לכןעדאריבאתכםנאםיהוהואתבניבניכםאריב
Oh, I will go on accusing you—declares GOD—And I will accuse your children’s children!
For My people have done a twofold wrong:They have forsaken Me, the Fount of living waters,And hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns,That cannot even hold water.
Word-by-Word Analysis
כישתים
780
רעות
676
עשה
375
עמי
120
אתי
411
עזבו
85
מקור
346
מים
90
חיים
68
לחצב
130
להם
75
בארות
609
בארת
603
נשברים
602
אשר
501
לאיכלו
97
המים
95
Jeremiah 2:14
Gematria: 1320
העבדישראלאםילידביתהואמדועהיהלבז
Is Israel a bondman?Is he a home-born slave?Then why is he given over to plunder?
Lions have roared over him,Have raised their cries.They have made his land a waste,His cities desolate, without inhabitants.
Word-by-Word Analysis
עליו
116
ישאגו
320
כפרים
350
נתנו
506
קולם
176
וישיתו
732
ארצו
297
לשמה
375
עריו
286
נצתה
545
נצתו
546
מבלי
82
ישב
312
Jeremiah 2:16
Gematria: 1965
גםבנינףותחפנסותחפנחסירעוךקדקד
Those, too, in Noph and TahpanhesbNoph and Tahpanhes Cities in Egypt. The Egyptians, like the Assyrians, will prove a disappointment; cf. v. 36. Will lay barecWill lay bare Meaning of Heb. uncertain. your head.
Word-by-Word Analysis
גםבנינף
235
ותחפנס
604
ותחפנחס
612
ירעוך
306
קדקד
208
Jeremiah 2:17
Gematria: 2681
הלואזאתתעשהלךעזבךאתיהוהאלהיךבעתמולכךבדרך
See, that is the price you have paidFor forsaking the ETERNAL your Goddthat is the price you have paid / For forsaking the ETERNAL your God Lit. “that is what your forsaking the ETERNAL your God is doing to you.” Who led you in the way.eWho led you in the way Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
What, then, is the good of your going to EgyptTo drink the waters of the Nile?And what is the good of your going to AssyriaTo drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Let your misfortune reprove you,Let your afflictions rebuke you;Mark well how bad and bitter it isThat you forsake the ETERNAL your God,That awe for Me is not in you—declares my Sovereign GOD of Hosts.
For long ago youfyou For the form, cf. shaqqamti, Judg. 5.7; in contrast to others “I.” broke your yoke,Tore off your yoke-bands,And said, “I will not work!”gwork Following the kethib; qere “transgress.” On every high hill and under every verdant tree,You recline as a whore.
Word-by-Word Analysis
כי
30
מעולם
186
שברתי
912
עלך
120
נתקתי
960
מוסרותיך
742
ותאמרי
657
לא
31
אעבוד
83
אעבור
279
כי
30
עלכלגבעה
230
גבהה
15
ותחת
814
כלעץ
210
רענן
370
את
401
צעה
165
זנה
62
Jeremiah 2:21
Gematria: 3356
ואנכינטעתיךשורקכלהזרעאמתואיךנהפכתליסוריהגפןנכריה
I planted you with noble vines,All with choicest seed;Alas, I find you changedInto a base, an alien vine!
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואנכי
87
נטעתיך
559
שורק
606
כלה
55
זרע
277
אמת
441
ואיך
37
נהפכת
555
לי
40
סורי
276
הגפן
138
נכריה
285
Jeremiah 2:22
Gematria: 3503
כיאםתכבסיבנתרותרבילךבריתנכתםעונךלפנינאםאדנייהוה
Though you wash with natronAnd use much lye,Your guilt is ingrained before Me—declares my Sovereign GOD.
How can you say, “I am not defiled,I have not gone after the Baalim”?Look at your deeds in the Valley,hValley Of Hinnom; cf. 7.31–32; 32.35. Consider what you have done!Like a lustful she-camel,Restlessly running about,iRestlessly running about Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
Or like a wild ass used to the desert,Snuffing the wind in her eagerness,Whose passion none can restrain,None that seek her need grow weary—In her season, they’ll find her!
Save your foot from going bare,And your throat from thirst.But you say, “It is no use.No, I love the strangers,jstrangers I.e., other gods. And after them I must go.”
They said to wood, “You are my father,”To stone, “You gave birth to me,”While to Me they turned their backsAnd not their faces.But in their hour of calamity they cry,“Arise and save us!”
And where are those godsYou made for yourself?Let them arise and save you, if they can,In your hour of calamity.For your gods have become, O Judah,As many as your towns!
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואיה
22
אלהיך
66
אשר
501
עשית
780
לך
50
יקומו
162
אםיושיעוך
463
בעת
472
רעתך
690
כי
30
מספר
380
עריך
300
היו
21
אלהיך
66
יהודהס
90
Jeremiah 2:29
Gematria: 1863
למהתריבואליכלכםפשעתםבינאםיהוה
Why do you call Me to account?You have all rebelled against Me—declares GOD.
O generation, beholdkO generation, behold Meaning of Heb. uncertain. the word of GOD!Have I been like a desert to Israel,Or like a land of deep gloom?Then why do My people say, “We have broken loose,We will not come to You anymore?”
Word-by-Word Analysis
הדור
215
אתם
441
ראו
207
דבריהוה
232
המדבר
251
הייתי
435
לישראל
571
אם
41
ארץ
291
מאפליה
166
מדוע
120
אמרו
247
עמי
120
רדנו
260
לואנבוא
96
עוד
80
אליך
61
Jeremiah 2:32
Gematria: 2996
התשכחבתולהעדיהכלהקשריהועמישכחוניימיםאיןמספר
Can a maiden forget her jewels,A bride her adornments?Yet My people have forgotten Me—Days without number.
Word-by-Word Analysis
התשכח
733
בתולה
443
עדיה
89
כלה
55
קשריה
615
ועמי
126
שכחוני
394
ימים
100
אין
61
מספר
380
Jeremiah 2:33
Gematria: 4003
מהתיטבידרכךלבקשאהבהלכןגםאתהרעותלמדתילמדתאתדרכיך
How skillfully you plan your wayTo seek out love!Why, you have even taughtThe worst of women your ways.
Moreover, on your garments is foundThe lifeblood of the innocent poor—You did not catch them breaking in.lbreaking in In which case there might have been an excuse for killing them; cf. Exod. 22.1. Yet, despite all these things,mYet, despite all these things Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
Word-by-Word Analysis
גם
43
בכנפיך
182
נמצאו
187
דם
44
נפשות
836
אביונים
119
נקיים
210
לאבמחתרת
1081
מצאתים
581
כי
30
עלכלאלה
186
Jeremiah 2:35
Gematria: 3608
ותאמריכינקיתיאךשבאפוממניהננינשפטאותךעלאמרךלאחטאתי
You say, “I have been acquitted;Surely, God’s anger has turned away from me.”Lo, I will bring you to judgmentFor saying, “I have not sinned.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותאמרי
657
כי
30
נקיתי
570
אך
21
שב
302
אפו
87
ממני
140
הנני
115
נשפט
439
אותך
427
עלאמרך
361
לא
31
חטאתי
428
Jeremiah 2:36
Gematria: 4913
מהתזלימאדלשנותאתדרכךגםממצריםתבשיכאשרבשתמאשור
How you cheapen yourself,By changing your course!You shall be put to shame through Egypt,Just as you were put to shame through Assyria.
From this way, too, you will come outWith your hands on your head;nWith your hands on your head A gesture of wild grief; cf. 2 Sam. 13.19. For GOD has rejected those you trust,You will not prosper with them.