Jeremiah 2:19-21

Complete Jewish Bible

¹⁹Your own wickedness will correct you,
your own backslidings will convict you;
you will know and see how bad and bitter
it was to abandon Adonai your God,
and how fear of me is not in you,”
says Adonai Elohim-Tzva’ot.

²⁰“For long ago I broke your yoke;
when I snapped your chains, you said, ‘I won’t sin.’
Yet on every high hill, under every green tree,
you sprawled and prostituted yourself.
²¹But I planted you as a choice vine
of seed fully tested and true.
How did you degenerate
into a wild vine for me?

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