Jeremiah 2:20
“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.Jeremiah 2:20 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — યર્મિયા ૨:૨૦
- પ્રાચીન કાળમાં મેં તારી ઝૂંસરી ભાંગી નાખી; અને મેં તારાં બંધનો તોડી નાખ્યાં. તે છતાં તેં કહ્યું કે, “હું તમારી સેવા કરીશ નહિ” કેમ કે દરેક ઊંચા પર્વત પર તથા દરેક લીલા વૃક્ષની નીચે તેં વ્યભિચાર કર્યો છે.
- हिन्दी — यिर्मयाह २:२०
- “क्योंकि बहुत समय पहले मैंने तेरा जूआ तोड़ डाला और तेरे बन्धन खोल दिए; परन्तु तूने कहा, ‘मैं सेवा न करूँगी।’ और सब ऊँचे-ऊँचे टीलों पर और सब हरे पेड़ों के नीचे तू व्यभिचारिणी का सा काम करती रही।
In context
18Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
19“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies.
20“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
22For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD.
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