Jeremiah 2
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Lutheran reading notes
In Jeremiah chapter 2, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of warnings of judgment, covenant unfaithfulness, and future restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 2:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land {that was} not sown. {thee: or, for thy sake}
Jeremiah 2:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Israel {was} holiness unto the LORD, {and} the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 2:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
Jeremiah 2:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Jeremiah 2:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Neither said they, Where {is} the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah 2:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. {a plentiful...: or, the land of Carmel}
Jeremiah 2:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 2:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
Jeremiah 2:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. {over: or, over to}
Jeremiah 2:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hath a nation changed {their} gods, which {are} yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for {that which} doth not profit.
Jeremiah 2:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 2:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, {and} hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Is} Israel a servant? {is} he a homeborn {slave}? why is he spoiled? {spoiled: Heb. become a spoil?}
Jeremiah 2:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The young lions roared upon him, {and} yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. {yelled: Heb. gave out their voice}
Jeremiah 2:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. {have...: or, feed on thy crown}
Jeremiah 2:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Jeremiah 2:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
Jeremiah 2:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that {it is} an evil {thing} and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear {is} not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Jeremiah 2:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For of old time I have broken thy yoke, {and} burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. {transgress: or, serve}
Jeremiah 2:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
Jeremiah 2:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, {yet} thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
Jeremiah 2:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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; {thou art...: or, O swift dromedary}
Jeremiah 2:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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A wild ass used to the wilderness, {that} snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. {A wild...: or, O wild ass, etc} {used: Heb. taught} {her pleasure: Heb. the desire of her heart} {turn...: or, reverse it?}
Jeremiah 2:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. {There...: or, Is the case desperate?}
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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
Jeremiah 2:26 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Saying to a stock, Thou {art} my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned {their} back unto me, and not {their} face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. {brought...: or, begotten me} {their back: Heb. the hinder part of the neck}
Jeremiah 2:27 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But where {are} thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for {according to} the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. {trouble: Heb. evil}
Jeremiah 2:28 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 2:29 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 2:30 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? {We are...: Heb. We have dominion}
Jeremiah 2:31 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Can a maid forget her ornaments, {or} a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah 2:32 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Jeremiah 2:33 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. {secret...: Heb. digging}
Jeremiah 2:34 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Jeremiah 2:35 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
Jeremiah 2:36 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
Jeremiah 2:37 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.