Jeremiah 2:23

2:23 “How can you say, ‘I have not made myself unclean.

I have not paid allegiance to ¹  the gods called Baal.’

Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom! ² 

Think about the things you have done there!

You are like a flighty, young female camel

that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path. ³ 

Jeremiah 6:19

6:19 Hear this, you peoples of the earth: ⁴ 

‘Take note! ⁵  I am about to bring disaster on these people.

It will come as punishment for their scheming. ⁶ 

For they have paid no attention to what I have said, ⁷ 

and they have rejected my law.

Jeremiah 8:2

8:2 They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. ⁸  These are things they ⁹  adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, ¹⁰  from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people ¹¹  will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground. ¹² 

Jeremiah 11:10

11:10 They have gone back to the evil ways ¹³  of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to ¹⁴  other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah ¹⁵  have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

Jeremiah 36:31

36:31 I will punish him and his descendants and the officials who serve him for the wicked things they have done. ¹⁶  I will bring on them, the citizens of Jerusalem, ¹⁷  and the people of Judah all the disaster that I threatened to do to them. I will punish them because I threatened them but they still paid no heed.”’” ¹⁸ 

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¹ tn Heb “I have not gone/followed after.” See the translator’s note on 2:5 for the meaning and usage of this idiom.

² tn Heb “Look at your way in the valley.” The valley is an obvious reference to the Valley of Hinnom where Baal and Molech were worshiped and child sacrifice was practiced.

³ sn The metaphor is intended to depict Israel’s lack of clear direction and purpose without the Lord’s control.

⁴ tn Heb “earth.”

⁵ tn Heb “Behold!”

⁶ tn Heb “disaster on these people, the fruit of their schemes.”

⁷ tn Heb “my word.”

⁸ tc MT, 4QJer^a and LXX read “the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven,” but 4QJer^c reads “the sun and all the stars.”

tn Heb “the host of heaven.”

⁹ tn Heb “the sun, moon, and host of heaven which they…”

¹⁰ tn Heb “followed after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for the idiom.

¹¹ tn Heb “they will not” but the referent is far enough removed that it might be ambiguous.

¹² tn Heb “like dung/manure on the surface of the ground.”

¹³ tn Or “They have repeated the evil actions of….”

¹⁴ tn Heb “have walked/followed after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for the idiom.

¹⁵ tn Heb “house of Israel and house of Judah.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “for their iniquity.”

¹⁷ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁸ tn Heb “all the disaster which I spoke against them and they did not listen [or obey].”