Jeremiah 9:2 Cross References - LXX2012

² Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.

⁶ They will dwell near and hide [themselves]; they will watch my steps, accordingly as I have waited patiently in my soul. ⁷ You will on no account save them; you will bring down the people in wrath. ⁸ O God, I have declared my life to you; you has set my tears before you, even according to your promise.

⁵ The Lord shall keep you: the Lord is your shelter upon your right hand. ⁶ The sun shall not burn you by day, neither the moon by night. ⁷ May the Lord preserve you from all evil: the Lord shall keep your soul.

⁷ In what [way] shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses. ⁸ They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbor's wife.

¹ Righteous are you, O Lord, that I may make my defence to you, yes, I will speak to you [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of ungodly [men] prospers? [that] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?

⁶ For even your brethren and the house of your father, even these have dealt treacherously with you; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of you; trust not you in them, though they shall speak fair [words] to you.

¹⁰ For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is become evil, and so [also] their strength.

¹⁰ In you they have uncovered the father's shame; and in you they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness. ¹¹ They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.

² Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

⁷ For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.

⁷ For I will [have] mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.

⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

¹ Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as [one gathering] grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul! ² For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders [his way] aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbor: ³ they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks [a reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul: ⁴ therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a [rigid] rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, your times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations. ⁵ Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of your wife, so as not to commit anything to her. ⁶ For the son dishonors his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house [shall be] all a man's enemies. ⁷ But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will listen to me.

⁴ Her prophets are light [and] scornful men: her priests profane the holy things, and sinfully transgress the law.

¹¹ Juda has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Juda has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which he delighted in, and has gone after other gods.