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 dare ye say then, 'We are wise, we have the law of the LORD among us'? Behold, the deceitful pen of the scribes, setteth forth lies:

They shall teach Jacob thy judgments and Israel thy laws. They shall put cense before thy nose and whole sacrifices upon thine altar.

The law of truth was in his mouth, and there was no wickedness found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many one away from their sins.

Woe be to you lawyers: for ye have taken away the key of knowledge, ye entered not in yourselves, and them that came in ye forbade."

And ye have not known him. And if I should say, I know him not, I should be a liar like unto you; But I know him, and keep his saying.

And such things will they do unto you, because they have not known the father, neither yet me.

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and trustest in the law and rejoicest in God,

but have cast from us the cloaks of unhonesty, and walk not in craftiness, neither corrupt we the word of God: but walk in open truth, and report ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

The pastors

For the herdsmen have done foolishly, that they have not sought the LORD. Therefore have they dealt unwisely with their cattle, and all are scattered abroad.

Divers herdsmen have broken down my vineyard, and trodden upon my portion. Of my pleasant portion, they have made a wilderness and desert.

Woe be unto the shepherds, that destroy and scatter my flock," sayeth the LORD.

Do not

whether the Gentiles themselves deal so falsely and untruly with their gods - which yet are no gods indeed! But my people hath given over their high honour, for a thing that may not help them.

But take heed: ye trust in counsels that beguile you and do you no good.

Neither turn ye after vain things which can not deliver you, for they are but vanities.

They were all ashamed of the people that could do them no good, and that might not help them, nor show them any profit - but were their confusion and rebuke."

What help then will the Image do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vain cast Image, wherein because the craftsmen putteth his trust, therefore maketh he dumb Idols?

What shall it profit a man, though he should win all the whole world, if he lose his own soul? Or else, what shall a man give to redeem his soul again withal?

General references

and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the ordinances which the LORD hath commanded them by the hands of Moses."