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Jeremiah 2:17

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הֲלוֹא־ha.lo'-¿ notH3808 →
זֹ֖אתzotthisH2063 →
תַּעֲשֶׂה־ta.'a.seh-have you doneH6213 →
לָּ֑ךְLakhto <the> yourself
עָזְבֵךְ֙'a.ze.veKhby forsaking youH5800 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אֱלֹהַ֔יִךְ'e.lo.Ha.yikhGod yourH430 →
בְּעֵ֖תbe.'Etat [the] time ofH6256 →
מוֹלִיכֵ֥ךְmo.li.Khekh[one who] led youH1980 →
בַּדָּֽרֶךְ׃ba.Da.rekhin the wayH1870 →

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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!”Zephaniah 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”Jeremiah 2:19Your 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 28:15–68If, 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:Ezekiel 39:24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.Psalms 107:7He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.Leviticus 26:15–46and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,Psalms 77:20You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.Hosea 13:9You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.Deuteronomy 32:10He 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.Genesis 42:21Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”Jeremiah 15:6You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.Jeremiah 19:4because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”Jeremiah 5:6Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.Micah 1:5All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

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