Jeremiah 2:25

Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. ¹  But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods ²  and want to pursue them!’

De 28:48; De 29:19,20; De 32:16; 2Ch 28:22; Isa 2:6; Isa 20:2-4; Isa 57:10; Jer 3:13; Jer 13:22; Jer 18:12; Jer 44:17; La 4:4; Ho 2:3; Lu 15:22; Lu 16:24; Ro 2:4,5; Ro 8:24

¹ tn Heb “Refrain your feet from being bare and your throat from being dry/thirsty.”

² tn Heb “It is useless! No!” For this idiom, see Jer 18:12; NEB “No; I am desperate.”