Jeremiah Chapter 2

Complaint with Israel

2:1 Then the word of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here came to me, saying,
2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, saying, So says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here; I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, when you went after me in the wildernessבַּמִּדְבָּר
Transliteration: bammiḏbār – in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here, in a land that was not sown.
2:3 Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration:yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here was holinessקָדְשׁ‎
Transliteration qōḏeš Pronunciation ko’-desh a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity:—consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (× most) holy (× day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary. For more info click here to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him will offend; evil will come on them, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
2:4 Y’all hear the word of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, O house of Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob (later called Israel) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. for more info click here, and all the families of the house of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration:yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here:
2:5 So says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
2:6 Or did they say, Where is YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here that brought us out of the land of Egyptמִצְרַיִם‎
Transliteration:miṣrayim – Pronunciation: mits-rah’-yim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here, that led us through the wildernessבַּמִּדְבָּר
Transliteration: bammiḏbār – in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here, through a land of deserts and of ravines, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man lived?
2:7 And I brought you to a plentiful country, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it; but when y’all entered, y’all defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
2:8 The priests הַכֹּהֲנִים
Transliteration:hakōhănîm – Kohenim = priests, Plural principal officers or chief rulers For more info click here didn’t say, Where is YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here? and those that handled the Torahהַתּוֹרָה‎
Tōrā,/ˈtɔːrə, ˈtoʊrə/; law, teaching, direction, instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot. didn’t know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baalבַבַּעַל
baʿal) (/ˈbeɪ.əl, ˈbɑː.əl/), or Baʽal a fertility god whose cult was widespread in ancient Phoenician and Canaanite lands. For more info click here , and walked after things that don’t profit.
2:9 Why will I yet plead with you, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and with your children’s children will I plead.
2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittimכִּתִּים
Chittim or Kittim = “bruisers” Kittîy, kit-tee’; or כִּתִּיִּי Kittîyîy; patrial from an unused name denoting Cyprus (only in the plural); a Kittite or Cypriote; hence, an islander in general, i.e. the Greeks or Romans on the shores opposite Palestine:—Chittim, Kittim. For more info click here, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there is such a thing.
2:11 Has a nationגּוֹי‎
Transliteration: gôy Pronunciation: go’-ee – masculine noun, proper masculine noun (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—Gentile, heathen, nation, people. For more info click here changed [their] godsאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here, which are yet no godsאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here? but my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
2:12 Be appalled, O heavensשָׁמַיִם‎
Pronunciation:shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here, at this, and be horribly afraid, be y’all very desolate, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
2:13 Because my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Israel causes its own calamities

2:14 [Is] Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration:yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
2:15 The young lions roared on him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
2:16 Also the children of Nophנֹף‎
Transliteration: nōp̄ – Pronunciation: nofe aHebrew Noun: Proper Name – Noph = “presentability” – another name for ‘Memphis’ the capital city of Egypt . For more info click here and Tahapanes (or Tahapanes or Tehaphnehes) have broken the crown of your head.
2:17 Haven’t you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Transliteration:’ĕlōhêḵā – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here, when he led you on the roadבַּדֶּרֶךְ‎ Pronunciation: badereḵ – on the way, on the road, on the path, on the route, on the distance, on the journey, by the manner For more info click here?
2:18 And now what do you have to do on the roadלְדֶרֶךְ‎
Transliteration:lᵊḏereḵ way, road, path, route, distance, journey, manner For more info click here of Egyptמִצְרַיִם‎
Transliteration:miṣrayim – Pronunciation: mits-rah’-yim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what have you to do on the roadלְדֶרֶךְ‎
Transliteration:lᵊḏereḵ way, road, path, route, distance, journey, manner For more info click here of Assyria (or Asshur), to drink the waters of the river?
2:19 Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will reprove you: so know and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Transliteration:’ĕlōhêḵā – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here, and that my fear is not in you, says Adonaiהָאָדוֹן
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hostsצְבָאוֹת‎
Transliteration:ṣāḇā’ Pronunciation: tsaw-baw’ From the Hebrew root word translated “hosts” is tzva’ which is a term that describes “military units.” They have specific functions to carry out in a military campaign. The two places these military units are located is in the sky and on the earth. Continue reading at: click here.

Judah’s sins

2:20 Because in the past I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when on every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the harlot.
2:21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?
2:22 Because though you wash you with mineral potash, and take you much soap, yet your iniquity is deeply stained before me, says Adonaiהָאָדוֹן
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
2:23 How can you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after the Baalimהַבְּעָלִים
Transliteration: habʿālîm – (From Easton’s Bible Dictionary) — plural of Baal; images of the god Baal (Judges 2:11; 1 Samuel 7:4) a fertility god whose cult was widespread in ancient Phoenician and Canaanite lands. For more info click here ? see your roadדַרְכֵּךְ
Transliteration:ḏarkēḵ – your way, your road, your distance, your journey, your manner, your path, your direction, toward your For more info For more info For more info click here in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift young camel traversing her pathsדְּרָכֶיהָ
Transliteration:dᵊrāḵêhā – her ways, her roads, her distances, her journeys, her manners, her paths, her directions, toward her For more info For more info click here;
2:24 A wild donkey used to the wilderness, that breathes heavily the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? All those that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
2:25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, There is no hope: no; because I have loved foreigners, and after them will I go.
2:26 Like the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration:yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priestsוְכֹהֲנֵיהֶם
Transliteration:vᵊḵōhănêhem – Kohenim = priests, Plural principal and their officers or and their chief rulers For more info click here, and their prophets.
2:27 Saying to a timber, you are my father; and to a stone, you have brought me out: because they have turned their back to me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Get up, and save usוְהוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ‎
Transliteration:vᵊhôšîʿēnû – – masculine noun יָשַׁע to be safe; causatively, to free or succor:—× at all, avenging, defend, deliver(-er), help, preserve, rescue, be safe, bring (having) salvation, save(-iour), get victory, made safe – For more info click here.
2:28 But where are your gods אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Transliteration:’ĕlōhêḵā – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here that you have made you? let them get up, if they can save youאִם־יוֹשִׁיעוּךָ‎
Transliteration:’im yôšîʿûḵā – masculine noun יָשַׁע to be safe; causatively, to free or succor:—× at all, avenging, defend, deliver(-er), help, preserve, rescue, be safe, bring (having) salvation, save(-iour), get victory, made safe – For more info click here in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Transliteration:’ĕlōhêḵā – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here, O Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea For more info click here.
2:29 Why will y’all plead with me? Y’all all have transgressed against me, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
2:30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
2:31 O generation, see y’all the word of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here. Have I been a wildernessהֲמִדְבָּר
Transliteration: hămiḏbār – in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here to Israelלְיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration:lᵊyiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here? a land of darkness? Why do my people say, We are free to roam; we will come to you no more ?
2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
2:33 Why do you change your wayדַּרְכֵּךְ‎
Transliteration: darkēḵ – your way, your road, your path, your route, your distance, your journey, your manner, your course – For more info click here to seek love? So have you also taught the wicked women your waysדְּרָכָיִךְ
Transliteration:dᵊrāḵāyiḵ – your ways, your roads, your distances, journey, your manners, your paths, your directions – For more info For more info click here.
2:34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the soulsנַפְשׁוֹת
Transliteration: nap̄šôṯ – Verb: Hiphil Imperfect (yiqtol) 3rd Person Masculine Plural Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here of the poor innocents: I haven’t found it by secret search, but on all these.
2:35 Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger will turn from me. See, I will plead with you, because you say, I haven’t sinned.
2:36 Why do you go about so much to change your wayדַּרְכֵּךְ‎
Transliteration: darkēḵ – your way, your road, your path, your route, your distance, your journey, your manner For more info click here? you also will be ashamed of Egyptמִמִּצְרַיִם‎
Transliteration:mimmiṣrayim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here, as you were ashamed of Assyria (or Asshur).
2:37 Yes, you will go out from him, with your hands on your head: for YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has rejected your confidences, and you will not prosper in them.