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 ye say, We are wise, And the law of Jehovah is with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes.

They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.

The law of truth hath been in his mouth, And perverseness hath not been found in his lips, In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, And many he brought back from iniquity.

'Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

The pastors

For the shepherds have become brutish, And Jehovah they have not sought, Therefore they have not acted wisely, And all their flock is scattered.

Many shepherds did destroy My vineyard, They have trodden down My portion, They have made My desirable portion Become a wilderness -- a desolation.

Woe to shepherds destroying, And scattering the flock of My pasture, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Do not

Hath a nation changed gods? (And they are no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.

and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,

All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!

What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols?

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

General references

and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'