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Jeremiah 2

Jer. 2:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For of old time
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
I have broken
shabar (Hebrew #7665)
to burst (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken((-hearted)), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, X quite, tear, view (by mistake for 7663).
Pronounce: shaw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
thy yoke
`ol (Hebrew #5923)
from 5953; a yoke (as imposed on the neck), literally or figuratively
KJV usage: yoke.
Pronounce: ole
Origin: or mowl {ole}
, and burst
nathaq (Hebrew #5423)
to tear off
KJV usage: break (off), burst, draw (away), lift up, pluck (away, off), pull (out), root out.
Pronounce: naw-thak'
Origin: a primitive root
thy bands
mowcer (Hebrew #4147)
or mocrah {mo-ser-aw'}; from 3256; properly, chastisement, i.e. (by implication) a halter; figuratively, restraint
KJV usage: band, bond.
Pronounce: mo-sare'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine mowcerah {mo-say-raw'}
; ando thou saidst
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, I will not δtransgress
`abad (Hebrew #5647)
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
KJV usage: X be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, + husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
; when upon every high
gaboahh (Hebrew #1364)
from 1361; elevated (or elated), powerful, arrogant
KJV usage: haughty, height, high(-er), lofty, proud, X exceeding proudly.
Pronounce: gaw-bo'-ah
Origin: or (fully) gabowahh {gaw-bo'-ah}
hill
gib`ah (Hebrew #1389)
a hillock
KJV usage: hill, little hill.
Pronounce: ghib-aw'
Origin: feminine from the same as 1387
and under every green
ra`anan (Hebrew #7488)
verdant; by analogy, new; figuratively, prosperous
KJV usage: green, flourishing.
Pronounce: rah-an-awn'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be green
tree
`ets (Hebrew #6086)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
KJV usage: + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Pronounce: ates
Origin: from 6095
thou wanderest
tsa`ah (Hebrew #6808)
to tip over (for the purpose of spilling or pouring out), i.e. (figuratively) depopulate; by implication, to imprison or conquer; (reflexive) to lie down (for coitus)
KJV usage: captive exile, travelling, (cause to) wander(-er).
Pronounce: tsaw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
, playing the harlot
zanah (Hebrew #2181)
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
KJV usage: (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Pronounce: zaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton)
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Ex. 19:8• 8And all the people answered together, and said, All that Jehovah has spoken will we do! And Moses brought the words of the people back to Jehovah. (Ex. 19:8)
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1 Sam. 12:10• 10And they cried to Jehovah and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Jehovah, and have served the Baals and the Ashtoreths; and now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. (1 Sam. 12:10)
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or, serve,
Josh. 24:18,21• 18And Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples, and the Amorites the inhabitants of the land: so therefore we will serve Jehovah, for he is our God.
 21And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve Jehovah. (Josh. 24:18,21)
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Isa. 1:21• 21How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers. (Isa. 1:21)
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Deut. 12:2• 2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree; (Deut. 12:2)

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For of.
Jer. 30:8• 8And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more reduce him to servitude. (Jer. 30:8)
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Ex. 3:8• 8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good and spacious land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (Ex. 3:8)
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Lev. 26:13• 13I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright. (Lev. 26:13)
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Deut. 4:20,34• 20But you hath Jehovah taken, and hath brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, that ye might be to him a people of inheritance, as it is this day.
 34Or hath God essayed to come to take him a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a powerful hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? (Deut. 4:20,34)
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Deut. 15:15• 15And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee; therefore I command thee this thing to-day. (Deut. 15:15)
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Isa. 9:4• 4For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. (Isa. 9:4)
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Isa. 10:27• 27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck; and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. … (Isa. 10:27)
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Isa. 14:25• 25to break the Assyrian in my land; and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. (Isa. 14:25)
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Nah. 1:13• 13And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder. (Nah. 1:13)
and thou saidst.
Ex. 19:8• 8And all the people answered together, and said, All that Jehovah has spoken will we do! And Moses brought the words of the people back to Jehovah. (Ex. 19:8)
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Ex. 24:3• 3And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words that Jehovah has said will we do! (Ex. 24:3)
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Deut. 5:27• 27Come thou near, and hear all that Jehovah our God will say; and speak thou to us all that Jehovah our God will speak to thee; and we will hear it, and do it. (Deut. 5:27)
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Deut. 26:17• 17Thou hast this day accepted Jehovah to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and to hearken unto his voice; (Deut. 26:17)
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Josh. 1:16• 16And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou hast commanded us will we do, and whither thou shalt send us will we go. (Josh. 1:16)
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1 Sam. 12:10• 10And they cried to Jehovah and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Jehovah, and have served the Baals and the Ashtoreths; and now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. (1 Sam. 12:10)
transgress.
or, serve.
when upon.
Jer. 3:6• 6And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication. (Jer. 3:6)
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Deut. 12:2• 2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree; (Deut. 12:2)
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1 Kings 12:32• 32And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made; and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. (1 Kings 12:32)
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Psa. 78:58• 58And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. (Psa. 78:58)
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Isa. 57:5‑7• 5inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
 6Among the smooth stones of the torrent is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured out a drink-offering, thou hast offered an oblation. Shall I be comforted myself as to these things?
 7Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither didst thou go up to offer sacrifice. (Isa. 57:5‑7)
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Ezek. 16:24‑25,31• 24that thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:
 25thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom.
 31in that thou buildest thy place of debauchery at the head of every way, and makest thy high place in every street! And thou hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest reward, (Ezek. 16:24‑25,31)
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Ezek. 20:28• 28When I had brought them into the land which I had lifted up my hand to give unto them, then they saw every high hill and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; and there they placed their sweet savour, and there poured out their drink-offerings. (Ezek. 20:28)
playing.
Jer. 3:1,6‑8• 1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.
 6And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.
 7And I said, After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw it.
 8And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also. (Jer. 3:1,6‑8)
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Ex. 34:14‑16• 14For thou shalt worship no other *God; for Jehovah--Jealous is his name--is a jealous *God;
 15lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and then, when they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, thou be invited, and eat of their sacrifice,
 16and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. (Ex. 34:14‑16)
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Deut. 12:2• 2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree; (Deut. 12:2)
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Isa. 1:21• 21How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers. (Isa. 1:21)
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Ezek. 16:15‑16,28,41• 15But thou didst confide in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by: his it was.
 16And of thy garments thou didst take, and madest for thyself high places decked with divers colours, and didst play the harlot thereupon: the like hath not come to pass, and shall be no more.
 28And thou didst commit fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou didst commit fornication with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
 41And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from being a harlot, and thou also shalt give no more any reward. (Ezek. 16:15‑16,28,41)
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Ezek. 23:5• 5And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbours, (Ezek. 23:5)
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Hos. 2:5• 5For their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. (Hos. 2:5)
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Hos. 3:3• 3And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be another man's, and I will also be for thee. (Hos. 3:3)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For of old thou hast brokenf thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the harlot.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "I had broken."