5:25 Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. 1
Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’ 2
2:7 I brought you 3 into a fertile land
so you could enjoy 4 its fruits and its rich bounty.
But when you entered my land, you defiled it; 5
you made the land I call my own 6 loathsome to me.
1 tn Heb “have turned these things away.”
2 tn Heb “have withheld the good from you.”
3 sn Note how contemporary Israel is again identified with her early ancestors. See the study note on 2:2.
4 tn Heb “eat.”
5 sn I.e., made it ceremonially unclean. See Lev 18:19-30; Num 35:34; Deut 21:23.
6 tn Heb “my inheritance.” Or “the land [i.e., inheritance] I gave you,” reading the pronoun as indicating source rather than possession. The parallelism and the common use in Jeremiah of the term to refer to the land or people as the
sn The land belonged to the