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Chapter two.

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Moreover the word of the Lord came to me,
saying, Go and cry in the ears of

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Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
I remember thee, the kindness of thy

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youth, the love of thine espousals,
when thou wentest after me in the

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wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

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Israel was holiness unto the Lord,
and the firstfruits of his increase.

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All that devour him shall offend,
evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

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Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of
Jacob, and all the families of the house

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of Israel.

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Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have
your fathers found in me, that they are

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gone far from me, and have walked after
vanity, and are become vain?

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Neither, said they, where is the Lord that
brought us up out of the land of Egypt,

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that led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and of pits,

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through a land of drought and of the
shadow of death, through a land that no

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man passed through, and where no man
dwelt?

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And I brought you into a plentiful country
to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness

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thereof.

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But when ye entered, ye defiled my land,
and made mine heritage an abomination.

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The priests said not, Where is the Lord?

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And they that handle the law knew me not.

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The pastors also transgressed against me.

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And the prophets prophesied by bail,
and walked after things that do not

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profit.

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Wherefore I will yet plead with you,
saith the Lord, and with your children's

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children will I plead.

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For pass over the isles of Kittim,
and see, and send unto Kedar, and consider

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diligently, and see if there be such a
thing.

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Hath the nation changed their gods,
which are yet no gods?

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But my people have changed their glory for
that which doth not profit.

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Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this,
and be horribly afraid.

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Be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.

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For my people have committed two evils.

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They have forsaken me the fountain of
living waters, and hewed them out

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cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold
no water.

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Is Israel a servant?

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Is he a home-born slave?

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Why is he spoiled?

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The young lions roared upon him,
and yelled, and they made his land waste.

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His cities are burned without inhabitant.

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Also the children of Noph and Ahappanese
have broken the crown of thy head.

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Hast thou not procured this unto thyself,
in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy

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God, when he led thee by the way?

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And now, what hast thou to do in the way
of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor?

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Or what hast thou to do in their way of
Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

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Thy own wickedness shall correct thee,
and thy backslidings shall reprove thee.

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Know therefore, and see, that it is an
evil thing and bitter, that thou hast

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forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my
fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of

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hosts.

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For of old time I have broken thy yoke,
and burst thy bands.

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And thou saidst, I will not transgress,
when upon every high hill and under every

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green tree thou wanderest playing the
harlot.

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Yet I had planted thee a noble vine,
holy a right seed.

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How then art thou turned into the
degenerate plant of a strange vine unto

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me?

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For though there wash thee with niter,
and take thee much soap, yet thine

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iniquity is marked before me, saith the
Lord God.

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How canst thou say, I am not polluted,
I have not gone after Balaam?

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See thy way in the valley, know what thou
hast done.

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Thou art a swift dromedary, traversing her
ways, a wild ass used to the wilderness

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that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure.

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In her occasion, who can turn her away?

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All they that seek her will not weary
themselves.

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In her month they shall find her.

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Withhold thy foot from being unshod,
and thy throat from thirst.

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But thou saidst, there is no hope,
no.

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For I have loved strangers, and after them
will I go.

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As the thief is ashamed when he is found,
so is the house of Israel ashamed.

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They, their kings, their princes,
and their priests, and their prophets.

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Saying to a stock, thou art my father.

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And to a stone, thou hast brought me
forth, for they have turned their back

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unto me, and not their face.

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But in a time of their trouble they will
say, arise and save us.

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But where are thy gods that thou hast made
thee?

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Let them arise, if they can save thee in
the name of thy trouble.

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For according to the number of thy cities
are thy gods, O Judah.

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Wherefore will ye plead with me?

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Ye all have transgressed against me,
saith the Lord.

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In vain have I smitten your children.

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They received no correction.

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Your own sword hath devoured your prophets
like a destroying lion.

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O generation, see ye the word of the Lord.

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Have I been a wilderness unto Israel,
a land of darkness?

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Wherefore, say my people, we are lords.

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We will come no more unto thee.

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Can a maid forget her ornaments,
or a bride her attire?

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Yet my people have forgotten me days
without number.

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Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love?

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Therefore hast thou also taught the wicked
ones thy ways.

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Also in thy skirts is found the blood of
the souls of the poor innocents.

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I have not found it by secret search,
but upon all these.

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Yet thou sayest, because I am innocent,
surely his anger shall turn from me.

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Behold, I will plead with thee,
because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

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Why gattest thou about so much to change
thy way?

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Thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt,
as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

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Yea, thou shalt go forth from him,
and thine hands upon thine head.

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For the Lord hath rejected thy
confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.