Jeremiah 2:8

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Summary

The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

And they that

The pastors

Jeremiah 10:21

Jeremiah 12:10

Jeremiah 23:1

Do not

General references

Leviticus 10:11

Bible References

And they that

How shall ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah with us? Behold, surely for falsehood he made the style of the scribes a lie.

And they shall teach thy judgments to Jacob, and thy law to Israel; they will put incense at thy nose, and whole burnt-offerings upon thine altar.

The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: in truth and in uprightness he went with me, and he turned back many from iniquity.

Woe to you, skilled in the law! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye came not in yourselves, and those coming in ye hindered.

And ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.

And these things shall they do to you, for they know not the Father, nor me.

Behold, thou art named a Jew, and restest upon the law, and boastest thyself in God,

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

The pastors

For the shepherds were brutish, and they sought not Jehovah: for this they considered not, and all their flock was scattered.

Many shepherds destroyed my vineyard, they trod down my portion, they gave the portion of my desire for a desert of desolation.

Wo to the shepherds destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture! says Jehovah.

Do not

Did a nation change their gods, and they no gods? and my people changed their glory for what will not profit

Behold, you trusting to yourselves upon words of falsehood not to receive profit.

And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities.

All acted wickedly for a people who will not profit them, not for help and not for profiting, but for shame and also for a reproach.

What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?

For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

General references

And to teach the sons of Israel all the laws which Jehovah spake to them by the hand of Moses.