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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 2 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Jeremiah 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/1.htm" title="Jeremiah 1">◄</a> Jeremiah 2 <a href="../jeremiah/3.htm" title="Jeremiah 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Israel Has Forsaken God<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And he said, Thus saith the Lord,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I remember the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine espousals,<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>in following the Holy One of Israel, saith the Lord, Israel was the holy <i>people</i> to the Lord, <i>and</i> the first-fruits of his increase: al that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I brought you to Carmel, that ye should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and ye went in, and defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For go to the isles of the Chettians, and se; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory, <i>for that</i> from which they shall not be profited.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horror-struck, saith the Lord.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For my people has committed two <i>faults</i>, and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">The Consequence of Israel’s Sin<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Also the children of Memphis and Taphnas have known thee, and mocked thee.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Has not thy forsaking me brought these things upon thee? saith the Lord thy God.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And now what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Geon? and what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers?<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Thine apostasy shall correct thee, and thy wickedness shall reprove thee: know then, and see, that thy forsaking me <i>has been</i> bitter to thee, saith the Lord thy God; and I have taken no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou has said, I will not serve thee, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Yet I planted thee a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how art thou a strange vine turned to bitterness!<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Though thou shouldest wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself soap, <i>still</i> thou art stained by thine iniquities before me, saith the Lord.<p> <A name="24"></a><p class="hdg">Israel’s Unfaithfulness<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>How wilt thou say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold thy ways in the burial-ground, and know what thou hast done: her voice has howled in the evening:<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up <i>to them</i>, who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at <i>the time of</i> her humiliation they shall find her.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Withdraw thy foot from a rough way, and they throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself: for she loved strangers, and went after them.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>They said to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou has begotten me: and they have turned <i>their</i> backs to me, and not their faces: yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And where are thy gods, which thou madest for thyself? will they arise and save in the time of thine affliction? for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Wherefore do ye speak unto me? ye all have been ungodly, and ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>In vain have I smitten your children; ye have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet ye feared not.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Hear ye the word of the Lord: thus saith the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? wherefore has my people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to thee any more?<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin her girdle? but my people has forgotten me days without number.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? <i>it shall</i> not <i>be</i> so; moreover thou has done wickedly in corrupting thy ways;<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and in thine hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Yet thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I <i>will</i> plead with thee, whereas thou sayest, I have not sinned.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>For thou has been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat thy ways; but thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assur.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>For thou shalt go forth thence also with thine hands upon thine head; for the Lord has rejected thine hope, and thou shalt not prosper in it.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>