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href="/esv/jeremiah/2.htm">English Standard Version</a> They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’ <a href="/bsb/jeremiah/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’ <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/2.htm">King James Bible</a> 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? <a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/2.htm">New King James Version</a> Neither did they say, ‘Where is the LORD, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and pits, Through a land of drought and the shadow of death, Through a land that no one crossed And where no one dwelt?’ <a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and of pits, Through a land of drought and of deep darkness, Through a land that no one crossed And where no person lived?’ <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/2.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220They did not say, &#8216Where is the LORD Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and of pits, Through a land of drought and of deep darkness, Through a land that no one crossed And where no man dwelt?&#8217 <a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “And they did not say, ‘Where is the LORD Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and of pits, Through a land of drought and of deep darkness, Through a land that no one crossed And where no man dwelt?’ <a href="/lsb/jeremiah/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> They did not say, ‘Where is Yahweh Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who 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 one crossed And where no man inhabited?’ <a href="/amp/jeremiah/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD Who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and of pits, Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death], Through a land that no man passed through And where no man lived?’ <a href="/csb/jeremiah/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> They stopped asking, “Where is the LORD who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one traveled through and where no one lived? ” <a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> They stopped asking, &#8220Where is the LORD who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one traveled through and where no one lived?&#8221 <a href="/asv/jeremiah/2.htm">American Standard Version</a> Neither said they, Where is Jehovah 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 none passed through, and where no man dwelt? <a href="/cev/jeremiah/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Your ancestors refused to ask for my help, though I had rescued them from Egypt and led them through a treacherous, barren desert, where no one lives or dares to travel. <a href="/erv/jeremiah/2.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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 none passed through, and where no man dwelt? <a href="/gwt/jeremiah/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> They didn't ask, "Where is the LORD, who brought us from Egypt? He led us through the desert, through a wasteland and its pits, a land of drought and the shadow of death. No one lives there or travels there." <a href="/gnt/jeremiah/2.htm">Good News Translation</a> They did not care about me, even though I rescued them from Egypt and led them through the wilderness: a land of deserts and sand pits, a dry and dangerous land where no one lives and no one will even travel. <a href="/isv/jeremiah/2.htm">International Standard Version</a> "They didn't ask, 'Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the land of desert and pits, through the land of dryness and deep darkness, a land that people don't pass through, and where no one lives?' <a href="/msb/jeremiah/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> They did not ask, ?Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?? <a href="/net/jeremiah/2.htm">NET Bible</a> They did not ask: 'Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of desert sands and rift valleys, through a land of drought and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?' <a href="/nheb/jeremiah/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Neither did they say, 'Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 none passed through, and where no man lived?' <a href="/wbt/jeremiah/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drouth, and of the shades of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? <a href="/web/jeremiah/2.htm">World English Bible</a> They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no man lived?’ <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And have not said, Where [is] YHWH, "" Who brings us up out of the land of Egypt, "" Who leads us in a wilderness, "" In a land of deserts and pits, "" In a dry land, and of death-shade, "" In a land that none has passed through, "" Nor has man dwelt there? <a href="/ylt/jeremiah/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And have not said, Where is Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land -- none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?' <a href="/slt/jeremiah/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And they said not, Where is Jehovah bringing us up out of the land of Egypt, causing us to go through the desert into a sterile land and a pit, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land not a man passed through it, and not a man dwelt there?<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/jeremiah/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt? <a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And they have not said: ‘Where is the Lord, who caused us to ascend from the land of Egypt; who led us through the desert, through an uninhabited and impassable land, through a land of drought and of the image of death, through a land in which no one walked and in which no man lived?’ <a href="/nabre/jeremiah/2.htm">New American Bible</a> They did not ask, “Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, through a land of wastes and ravines, A land of drought and darkness, a land which no one crosses, where no one dwells?” <a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> They did not say, “Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that no one passes through, where no one lives?”<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Neither did they say, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a waste and depressed land, through a desolate land and a land of the shadow of death, a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwells? <a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And they did not say: ‘Where is LORD JEHOVAH who brought us up from the land of Egypt [7] And led us in the wilderness in the desolate and weary land in the desert land of the shadows of death, in the land that no man crossed and no son of a man dwelt there?’<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/jeremiah/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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?' <a href="/sep/jeremiah/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> 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? <a href="/parallel/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=260" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/2.htm">Israel has Forsaken God</a> …5This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves? 6<a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">They did not</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ā·mə·rū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">ask,</a> <a href="/hebrew/346.htm" title="346: ’ay·yêh (Interrog) -- Where?. Prolonged from 'ay; where?.">‘Where</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">is the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/5927.htm" title="5927: ham·ma·‘ă·leh (Art:: V-Hifil-Prtcpl-ms) -- A primitive root; to ascend, intransitively or actively; used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative.">who brought us up</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯā·nū (DirObjM:: 1cp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: mê·’e·reṣ (Prep-m:: N-fsc) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">from the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/4714.htm" title="4714: miṣ·rā·yim (N-proper-fs) -- A son of Ham, also his desc. and their country in N.W. Africa. Dual of matsowr; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt.">of Egypt,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: ham·mō·w·lîḵ (Art:: V-Hifil-Prtcpl-ms) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">who led</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯā·nū (DirObjM:: 1cp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">us</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: bam·miḏ·bār (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">through the wilderness,</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: bə·’e·reṣ (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">through a land</a> <a href="/hebrew/6160.htm" title="6160: ‘ă·rā·ḇāh (N-fs) -- From arab; a desert; especially the sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea.">of deserts</a> <a href="/hebrew/7745.htm" title="7745: wə·šū·ḥāh (Conj-w:: N-fs) -- A pit. From shuwach; a chasm.">and pits,</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: bə·’e·reṣ (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">a land</a> <a href="/hebrew/6723.htm" title="6723: ṣî·yāh (Adj-fs) -- Dryness, drought. From an unused root meaning to parch; aridity; concretely, a desert.">of drought</a> <a href="/hebrew/6757.htm" title="6757: wə·ṣal·mā·weṯ (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- Death-like shadow, deep shadow. From tsel and maveth; shade of death, i.e. The grave.">and darkness,</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: bə·’e·reṣ (Prep-b:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">a land</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">where no</a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’îš (N-ms) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term.">one</a> <a href="/hebrew/5674.htm" title="5674: ‘ā·ḇar (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To pass over, through, or by, pass on. A primitive root; to cross over; used very widely of any transition; specifically, to cover.">travels</a> <a href="/hebrew/bāh (Prep:: 3fs) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: šām (Adv) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence.">and</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō- (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">no</a> <a href="/hebrew/120.htm" title="120: ’ā·ḏām (N-ms) -- Man, mankind. From 'adam; ruddy i.e. A human being.">one</a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: yā·šaḇ (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">lives?’</a> 7I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/deuteronomy/8-15.htm">Deuteronomy 8:15</a> He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint. <a href="/exodus/13-21.htm">Exodus 13:21-22</a> And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night. / Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people. <a href="/numbers/14-22.htm">Numbers 14:22</a> not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times— <a href="/psalms/78-14.htm">Psalm 78:14-16</a> He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night. / He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas. / He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers. <a href="/isaiah/63-11.htm">Isaiah 63:11-13</a> Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them, / who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown, / who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble? <a href="/hosea/13-5.htm">Hosea 13:5</a> I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. <a href="/nehemiah/9-19.htm">Nehemiah 9:19-21</a> You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go. / You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst. / For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. <a href="/psalms/136-16.htm">Psalm 136:16</a> He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever. <a href="/deuteronomy/32-10.htm">Deuteronomy 32:10</a> He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye. <a href="/amos/2-10.htm">Amos 2:10</a> And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite. <a href="/acts/7-36.htm">Acts 7:36</a> He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-1.htm">1 Corinthians 10:1-4</a> I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. / They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. / They all ate the same spiritual food ... <a href="/hebrews/3-7.htm">Hebrews 3:7-9</a> Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, / do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. <a href="/john/6-31.htm">John 6:31-33</a> Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” / Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. / For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” <a href="/revelation/12-6.htm">Revelation 12:6</a> And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>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 dwelled?where<a href="/jeremiah/2-8.htm">Jeremiah 2:8</a> 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.<a href="/jeremiah/5-2.htm">Jeremiah 5:2</a> And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.<a href="/judges/6-13.htm">Judges 6:13</a> And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.brought us up<a href="/exodus/14-1.htm">Exodus 14:1</a> And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,<a href="/exodus/15-1.htm">Exodus 15:1</a> Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.<a href="/isaiah/63-9.htm">Isaiah 63:9,11-13</a> In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old… led us<a href="/jeremiah/2-2.htm">Jeremiah 2:2</a> 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.<a href="/deuteronomy/8-14.htm">Deuteronomy 8:14-16</a> Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; … <a href="/deuteronomy/32-10.htm">Deuteronomy 32:10</a> He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.the shadow<a href="/job/3-5.htm">Job 3:5</a> Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.<a href="/job/10-21.htm">Job 10:21,22</a> Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; … <a href="/psalms/23-4.htm">Psalm 23:4</a> Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/60-2.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-16.htm">Death</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-15.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-21.htm">Deserts</a> <a href="/isaiah/58-11.htm">Drought</a> <a href="/isaiah/58-11.htm">Drouth</a> <a href="/isaiah/52-4.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-13.htm">Led</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-15.htm">Passed</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-22.htm">Pits</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-16.htm">Shadow</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-2.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/2-31.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-16.htm">Death</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-10.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-6.htm">Deserts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-1.htm">Drought</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-8.htm">Drouth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-18.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-17.htm">Led</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-13.htm">Passed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-3.htm">Pits</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-16.htm">Shadow</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-24.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 2</div>1. <a href="/jeremiah/2-1.htm">God having shown his former kindness, </a> 5. <a href="/jeremiah/2-5.htm">expostulates with the people on their causeless and unexampled revolt</a> 14. <a href="/jeremiah/2-14.htm">They are the causes of their own calamities</a> 18. <a href="/jeremiah/2-18.htm">The sins and idolatries of Judah</a> 35. <a href="/jeremiah/2-35.htm">Her confidence is rejected.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The exodus from Egypt is a foundational event in Israel's history, symbolizing God's power and faithfulness. It is frequently referenced throughout the Old Testament as a reminder of God's covenant and salvation (<a href="/exodus/20-2.htm">Exodus 20:2</a>, <a href="/deuteronomy/5-6.htm">Deuteronomy 5:6</a>). The failure to seek the Lord reflects a spiritual decline and a turning away from the covenant relationship established at Sinai. This neglect is a recurring theme in the prophetic literature, where the prophets call Israel to remember and return to the Lord (<a href="/hosea/11.htm">Hosea 11:1-2</a>).who led us through the wilderness The wilderness journey was a time of testing and reliance on God, where He provided for Israel's needs despite the harsh conditions (<a href="/deuteronomy/8-2.htm">Deuteronomy 8:2-4</a>). It was also a period of divine guidance, with God leading the people by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night (<a href="/exodus/13-21.htm">Exodus 13:21-22</a>). The wilderness experience is often used as a metaphor for spiritual growth and dependence on God. The people's failure to acknowledge God's guidance through the wilderness signifies a lack of trust and recognition of His sovereignty.through a land of deserts and pits The description of the wilderness as a land of deserts and pits emphasizes its inhospitable nature. Deserts in the biblical context are often associated with desolation and danger, requiring complete dependence on God for survival. Pits may refer to natural hazards or metaphorically to the challenges and trials faced by the Israelites. This imagery underscores the miraculous nature of God's provision and protection during the journey. The reference to deserts and pits also serves as a reminder of the spiritual barrenness that results from turning away from God.a land of drought and darkness Drought signifies a lack of water, a critical resource in the arid regions of the Near East, symbolizing spiritual dryness and the absence of God's blessing. Darkness often represents ignorance, sin, or divine judgment (<a href="/isaiah/9-2.htm">Isaiah 9:2</a>, <a href="/amos/5-18.htm">Amos 5:18</a>). The combination of drought and darkness paints a picture of a place devoid of life and hope, contrasting with the abundance and light found in God's presence. This serves as a warning of the consequences of forsaking the Lord, who is the source of life and light.a land where no one travels and no one lives?’ This phrase highlights the uninhabitable and perilous nature of the wilderness. It was not a place for settlement or travel, emphasizing the miraculous nature of Israel's survival and journey. The wilderness is often depicted as a place of isolation and testing, where God shapes and prepares His people (<a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33-34</a>). The rhetorical question underscores the absurdity of Israel's neglect of God, who alone made it possible for them to traverse and survive in such a hostile environment. This serves as a call to recognize and return to the Lord, who is the sustainer and protector of His people.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a> The covenant God of Israel, who delivered the Israelites from Egypt and guided them through the wilderness. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a> The people of God who were delivered from slavery in Egypt and led through the wilderness to the Promised Land. 3. <a href="/topical/e/egypt.htm">Egypt</a> The land of bondage from which God delivered the Israelites, symbolizing sin and oppression. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness.htm">The Wilderness</a> A place of testing and reliance on God, characterized by deserts, ravines, drought, and darkness. 5. <a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a> The prophet through whom God is speaking, calling the people to remember their deliverance and faithfulness to God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/r/remember_god's_faithfulness.htm">Remember God's Faithfulness</a> Just as the Israelites were called to remember God's deliverance from Egypt, Christians are encouraged to recall God's faithfulness in their own lives. Reflecting on past deliverances strengthens faith and trust in God. <a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_forgetfulness.htm">The Danger of Forgetfulness</a> Forgetting God's past works can lead to spiritual complacency and rebellion. Regularly recounting God's blessings and interventions helps maintain a heart of gratitude and obedience. <a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness_as_a_place_of_growth.htm">The Wilderness as a Place of Growth</a> The wilderness represents times of trial and testing. These periods are opportunities for growth and deeper reliance on God. Embrace them as part of God's refining process. <a href="/topical/s/seek_god_in_every_season.htm">Seek God in Every Season</a> The Israelites failed to ask, "Where is the LORD?" in their journey. In every season of life, especially in challenging times, actively seek God's presence and guidance. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_leadership.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Leadership</a> Jeremiah's role as a prophet was to remind the people of their covenant with God. Spiritual leaders today are called to guide others in remembering and adhering to God's Word.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_2.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 2</a> <a href="/q/how_reconcile_jer_2_6_with_no_migration_proof.htm">In Jeremiah 2:6, how can we reconcile the claim of God leading Israel through the wilderness with the lack of definitive archaeological evidence supporting such a mass migration? </a> <a href="/q/does_no_exodus_evidence_challenge_faith.htm">Amos 3:1: Does the lack of direct archaeological evidence for a mass exodus undermine the claim that God led Israel out of Egypt? </a> <a href="/q/jeremiah_42__aligns_with_god's_teachings.htm">Jeremiah 42 (overall): How do the warnings and outcomes in this chapter align with other biblical teachings on God's protection and judgment, and are there any inconsistencies?</a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_moses'_speech_traits.htm">Stephen states Moses was 'mighty in words' (Acts 7:22), but Exodus 4:10 depicts Moses as slow of speech. How do we reconcile these descriptions?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6) Neither said they.--In somewhat of the same tone as in <a href="/deuteronomy/8-15.htm" title="Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;">Deuteronomy 8:15</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/32-10.htm" title="He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.">Deuteronomy 32:10</a>, the horrors of the wilderness are painted in vivid colours, to heighten the contrast with the land into which they had been brought. The picture was true of part, but not of the whole, of the region of the wanderings. But the people had forgotten this. There was no seeking for the Lord who had then been so gracious. The question, Where is He? never crossed their thoughts.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 6. - Neither said they, etc.; as their children's children were forced by stress of trouble to say (<a href="/isaiah/63-11.htm">Isaiah 63:11</a>; see note). A land of desserts and of pits. The first phrase applied to the region through which the Israelites passed ("a wilderness") was vague, and might mean merely pasture-land. The remainder of the description, however, shows that "wilderness" is here meant, as often (e.g. <a href="/isaiah/35-1.htm">Isaiah 35:1</a>; <a href="/isaiah/50-2.htm">Isaiah 50:2</a>), in the sense of "desert." Though recent travelers have shown that the Sinaitie peninsula is not by any means universally a "desert," and that in ancient times it was still less so, it is not unnatural that an agricultural people should regard it as a most inhospitable region, and should even idealize its terrors (comp. <a href="/deuteronomy/8-15.htm">Deuteronomy 8:15</a>). "Pits," i.e. rents and fissures in the soil, in which the unwary traveler might lose his life (<a href="/jeremiah/18-20.htm">Jeremiah 18:20, 22</a>). <a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>They did not וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no ask, אָמְר֔וּ (’ā·mə·rū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say ‘Where אַיֵּ֣ה (’ay·yêh) Interrogative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_346.htm">Strong's 346: </a> Where? is the LORD יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel who brought הַמַּעֲלֶ֥ה (ham·ma·‘ă·leh) Article | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5927.htm">Strong's 5927: </a> To ascend, in, actively us from אֹתָ֖נוּ (’ō·ṯā·nū) Direct object marker | first person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_853.htm">Strong's 853: </a> Untranslatable mark of the accusative case the land מֵאֶ֣רֶץ (mê·’e·reṣ) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land of Egypt, מִצְרָ֑יִם (miṣ·rā·yim) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4714.htm">Strong's 4714: </a> Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa who led הַמּוֹלִ֨יךְ (ham·mō·w·lîḵ) Article | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> To go, come, walk us through the wilderness, בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר (bam·miḏ·bār) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> A pasture, a desert, speech through a land בְּאֶ֨רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land of deserts עֲרָבָ֤ה (‘ă·rā·ḇāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6160.htm">Strong's 6160: </a> Arabah -- a steppe or desert plain, also a desert valley running south from the Sea of Galilee and pits, וְשׁוּחָה֙ (wə·šū·ḥāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7745.htm">Strong's 7745: </a> A chasm through a land בְּאֶ֙רֶץ֙ (bə·’e·reṣ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land of drought צִיָּ֣ה (ṣî·yāh) Adjective - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6723.htm">Strong's 6723: </a> Aridity, a desert and darkness, וְצַלְמָ֔וֶת (wə·ṣal·mā·weṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6757.htm">Strong's 6757: </a> Death-like shadow, deep shadow a land בְּאֶ֗רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land where no לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no one אִ֔ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> A man as an individual, a male person travels עָ֤בַר (‘ā·ḇar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5674.htm">Strong's 5674: </a> To pass over, through, or by, pass on and שָֽׁם׃ (šām) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8033.htm">Strong's 8033: </a> There, then, thither no וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no one אָדָ֖ם (’ā·ḏām) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_120.htm">Strong's 120: </a> Ruddy, a human being lives?? יָשַׁ֥ב (yā·šaḇ) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-6.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 2:6 Neither said they Where is Yahweh who (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/2-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 2:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 2:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/2-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 2:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 2:7" /></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="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>