Jeremiah 2:17

Translations

Modern

Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

Traditional

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Literal

Have you not done this to yourself, by your forsaking YHWH your God in the time He led you in the way?

Latin

Numquid non istud factum est tibi, quia dereliquisti Dominum Deum tuum eo tempore quo ducebat te per viam?

Original

Hebrew

English

Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

Notes

Jeremiah 2:14–22

This review of Israel's history highlights the foolishness, violence, arrogance, and hopelessness of abandoning the true God to worship false pagan gods.

Theme notes and profiles

God’s New Covenant The Broken Covenant

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 4:18
“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
Jeremiah 2:19
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
Jeremiah 2:13
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Deuteronomy 28:15–68
If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
Hosea 13:9
You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.
Leviticus 26:15–46
…and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
Psalm 107:7
He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
Psalm 77:20
You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78:53–54
He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
2 Chronicles 7:19–20
But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
Numbers 32:23
But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Courts and Trials Jeremiah (Person) Priests and Levites Sexual Immorality

Topics

Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Church: Backslidden Ingratitude of Man to God Sin: Fruits of

Jeremiah 2:17

Translations?

Original?

Notes?

Events?

Related verses?

Glossary?

Topics?