Jeremiah 2:23
How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
How canst thou say {H559}, I am not polluted {H2930}, I have not gone {H1980} after {H310} Baalim {H1168}? see {H7200} thy way {H1870} in the valley {H1516}, know {H3045} what thou hast done {H6213}: thou art a swift {H7031} dromedary {H1072} traversing {H8308} her ways {H1870};
"How can you say, 'I am not defiled, I have not pursued the ba'alim'? Look at your conduct in the valley, understand what you have done. You are a restive young female camel, running here and there,
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Cross-References
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Jeremiah 7:31 (5 votes)
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart. -
Proverbs 30:12 (4 votes)
[There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness. -
Isaiah 57:5 (2 votes)
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? -
Isaiah 57:6 (2 votes)
Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? -
Romans 3:19 (2 votes)
¶ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. -
Esther 8:16 (2 votes)
The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour. -
Genesis 3:12 (2 votes)
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
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