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 do you say, We are wise, and the Law of Jehovah is with us? Lo, certainly the lying pen of the scribes has written falsely.

Let them teach Jacob Your judgments, and Israel Your Law. Let them put incense before You and whole burnt sacrifice on Your altar.

The Law of Truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and turned away many from iniquity.

Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and you have hindered those who were entering in.

Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I should say I do not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I know Him and I keep His Word.

And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the Law, and boast in God;

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

The pastors

For the pastors have become stupid, and have not sought Jehovah, therefore they shall not be blessed, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My portion under foot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture, says Jehovah.

Do not

Has a nation changed their gods who are yet no gods? But My people have changed their Glory for that which does not profit.

Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot do any good.

And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.

They were all ashamed of a people who could not profit them, nor be a help nor gain, but a shame and also a reproach.

What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols?

For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

General references

and so that you may teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.