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Jeremiah 2:5 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 2 · verse 5
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?Jeremiah 2:5 · King James Version
Jeremiah 2:5 in context
3Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
4Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
5Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
6Neither 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?
7And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- iniquityʻevelevilH5766 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- walkedyâlakto walkH3212 →
- vanityhebelemptiness or vanityH1892 →
- saithʼâmarto sayH559 →
- foundmâtsâʼproperly, to come forth toH4672 →
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Here is, I. A command given to Jeremiah to go and carry a message from God to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He was charged in general (Jer 1:17) to go and speak to them; here he is particularly charged to go and speak this to them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8