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Literal Standard Version

Jeremiah 2:1

And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophets;   Scofield Reference Index - Jeremiah;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jews, Judaism;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jeremiah (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Judges, Period of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 30;  

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,
Good News Translation
The Lord told me
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

1And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,2"Go, and you have called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said YHWH: I have remembered for you || The kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, || Your going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown. 3Israel [is] holy to YHWH, || The first-fruit of His increase, || All consuming him are guilty, || Calamity comes to them," || A declaration of YHWH. 4Hear a word of YHWH, O house of Jacob, || And all you families of the house of Israel— 5Thus said YHWH: "What perversity have your fathers found in Me, || That they have gone far off from Me, || And go after vanity, and become vain, 6And have not said, Where [is] YHWH, || Who brings us up out of the land of Egypt, || Who leads us in a wilderness, || In a land of deserts and pits, || In a dry land, and of death-shade, || In a land that none has passed through, || Nor has man dwelt there? 7Indeed, I bring you into a land of fruitful fields, || To eat its fruit and its goodness, || And you come in and defile My land, || And have made My inheritance an abomination. 8The priests have not said, Where [is] YHWH? And those handling the Law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, || And the prophets have prophesied by Ba‘al, || And have gone after those who do not profit.

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 God created the heavens and the earth,
Genesis 1:10
And God calls the dry land "Earth," and the collection of the waters He has called "Seas"; and God sees that [it is] good.
Genesis 2:3
And God blesses the seventh day, and sanctifies it, for in it He has ceased from all His work which God had created for making.
Genesis 2:4
These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth in their being created, in the day of YHWH God's making the earth and the heavens;
Genesis 2:5
and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouts, for YHWH God has not rained on the earth, and there is not a man to serve the ground,
Genesis 2:8
And YHWH God plants a garden in Eden, at the east, and He sets there the man whom He has formed;
Genesis 2:11
the name of the first [is] Pison, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Havilah where the gold [is],
Genesis 2:13
and the name of the second river [is] Gihon, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;
Exodus 20:11
for [in] six days YHWH has made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rests in the seventh day; therefore YHWH has blessed the Sabbath day and sanctifies it.
Exodus 31:17
it [is] a sign between Me and the sons of Israel for all time; for [in] six days YHWH made the heavens and the earth, and in the seventh day He has ceased and is refreshed."

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


 
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