Category: Jeremiah

  • Jeremiah 2:26

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;

    King James Version (KJV):
    As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

  • Jeremiah 2:27

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    who say to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

  • Jeremiah 2:22

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

    King James Version (KJV):
    For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

  • Jeremiah 2:23

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    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;

    King James Version (KJV):
    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;

  • Jeremiah 2:20

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

    King James Version (KJV):
    For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

  • Jeremiah 2:21

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

    King James Version (KJV):
    Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

  • Jeremiah 2:18

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? [

    King James Version (KJV):
    And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

  • Jeremiah 2:19

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

  • Jeremiah 2:16

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

  • Jeremiah 2:17

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?

    King James Version (KJV):
    Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?