Jeremiah 2:23

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Summary

How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

How canst

See

Jeremiah 3:2

Psalm 50:21

Valley

Jeremiah 7:31

Isaiah 57:5

Thou art a swift

Esther 8:16

General references

2 Samuel 11:12

Bible References

How canst

Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.

and the man saith, 'The woman whom Thou didst place with me -- she hath given to me of the tree -- and I do eat.'

And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, 'Blessed art thou of Jehovah; I have performed the word of Jehovah.'

For he made it smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, 'And who is my neighbour?'

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

See

Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.

These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

Valley

And have built the high places of Tophet, That are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, To burn their sons and their daughters with fire, Which I did not command, Nor did it come up on My heart.

Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree, Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the rocks.

Thou art a swift

to the Jews hath been light, and gladness, and joy, and honour,

General references

And David saith unto Uriah, 'Abide in this place also to-day, and to-morrow I send thee away;' and Uriah abideth in Jerusalem, on that day, and on the morrow,