Jeremiah 2:1

Good News Translation

The Lord told me

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to me:

Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

King James Version
Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

English Standard Version
The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Century Version
The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:

Amplified Bible
Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Moreouer, the woorde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

Contemporary English Version
The Lord told me

Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to me:

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's message came to me:

George Lamsa Translation
MOREOVER the word of the LORD came upon me, saying,

Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
And was the Word of Jehovah to me, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer, the worde of the LORDE comaunded me thus:

American Standard Version
And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

King James Version (1611)
Moreouer, the word of the Lord came to me, saying;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he said, Thus saith the Lord,

English Revised Version
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,

Update Bible Version
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New English Translation
The Lord spoke to me. He said:

New King James Version
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Living Translation
The Lord gave me another message. He said,

New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to me saying,

New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

THE MESSAGE
God 's Message came to me. It went like this: "Get out in the streets and call to Jerusalem, ‘ God 's Message! I remember your youthful loyalty, our love as newlyweds. You stayed with me through the wilderness years, stuck with me through all the hard places. Israel was God 's holy choice, the pick of the crop. Anyone who laid a hand on her would soon wish he hadn't!'" God 's Decree.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord told me ² to proclaim this message to everyone in Jerusalem. "I remember how faithful you were when you were young, how you loved me when we were first married; you followed me through the desert, through a land that had not been planted. ³ Israel, you belonged to me alone; you were my sacred possession. I sent suffering and disaster on everyone who hurt you. I, the Lord , have spoken." ⁴ Listen to the Lord 's message, you descendants of Jacob, you tribes of Israel. ⁵ The Lord says: "What accusation did your ancestors bring against me? What made them turn away from me? They worshiped worthless idols and became worthless themselves. ⁶ They did not care about me, even though I rescued them from Egypt and led them through the wilderness: a land of deserts and sand pits, a dry and dangerous land where no one lives and no one will even travel. ⁷ I brought them into a fertile land, to enjoy its harvests and its other good things. But instead they ruined my land; they defiled the country I had given them. ⁸ The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord ?' My own priests did not know me. The rulers rebelled against me; the prophets spoke in the name of Baal and worshiped useless idols.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the word: Jeremiah 1:11, Jeremiah 7:1, Jeremiah 23:28, Ezekiel 7:1, Hebrews 1:1, 2 Peter 1:21

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 16:1 - The word Ezekiel 22:3 - and maketh Luke 3:2 - the word

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, when God created the universe,

Genesis 1:10
He named the land "Earth," and the water which had come together he named "Sea." And God was pleased with what he saw.

Genesis 2:3
He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.

Genesis 2:4
And that is how the universe was created. When the Lord God made the universe,

Genesis 2:5
there were no plants on the earth and no seeds had sprouted, because he had not sent any rain, and there was no one to cultivate the land;

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed.

Genesis 2:11
The first river is the Pishon; it flows around the country of Havilah.

Genesis 2:13
The second river is the Gihon; it flows around the country of Cush.

Exodus 20:11
In six days I, the Lord , made the earth, the sky, the seas, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That is why I, the Lord , blessed the Sabbath and made it holy.

Exodus 31:17
It is a permanent sign between the people of Israel and me, because I, the Lord , made heaven and earth in six days, and on the seventh day I stopped working and rested."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying. Here begins the book, and Jeremiah's first sermon; and the following contains the message he was sent with, to which the preceding chapter is only a preface or introduction. The Targum calls it,

"the word of the prophecy from before the Lord.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Moreover - literally, And. Notice the connection between Jeremiah’s call and first prophecy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

God expresses his continued regard for his people, long since

chosen, 1-3.

He then expostulates with them on their ungrateful and worse

than heathen return to his regard, 4-11;

at which even the inanimate creation must be astonished,

12, 13.

After this their guilt is declared to be the sole cause of the

calamities which their enemies had power to inflict on them,

14-17.

They are upbraided for their alliances with idolatrous

countries, 18, 19;

and for their strong propensity to idolatry, notwithstanding

all the care and tender mercy of God, 20-29.

Even the chastenings of the Almighty have produced in this

people no repentance, 30.

The chapter concludes with compassionately remonstrating

against their folly and ingratitude in revolting so deeply from

God, and with warning them of the fearful consequences, 31, 37.

NOTES ON CHAP. II