KJV King James Version
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;
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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;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“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,
WEB World English Bible
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
ASV American Standard Version
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;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
How sayest thou, ‘I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?’ See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 2
20 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.
21 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?
22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
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;
24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
26 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,
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֵ֣יךְH349 · ekhhow?תֹּאמְרִ֞יH559 · a.marto sayלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotנִטְמֵ֗אתִיH2930 · ta.meto defileאַחֲרֵ֤יH310 · a.charafterהַבְּעָלִים֙H1168 · ba.alBaalלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotהָלַ֔כְתִּיH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentרְאִ֤יH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeדַרְכֵּךְ֙H1870 · de.rekhway: conductבַּגַּ֔יְאH1516 · gayValleyדְּעִ֖יH3045 · ya.dato knowמֶ֣הH4100 · mahwhat?עָשִׂ֑יתH6213 · a.sahto make: doבִּכְרָ֥הH1072 · bikh.rahyoung camelקַלָּ֖הH7031 · qalswiftמְשָׂרֶ֥כֶתH8308 · sa.rakhto twistדְּרָכֶֽיהָ׃H1870 · de.rekhway: conduct
Cross-references
Jeremiah 7:31And 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[There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness.Isaiah 57:5-6Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?Proverbs 30:20Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.Psalm 36:2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.Jeremiah 2:33-35Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.Genesis 3:12-13And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.1 John 1:8-10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.Jeremiah 9:14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:Psalm 50:21These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.Proverbs 28:13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.Jeremiah 31:22How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.Esther 8:16The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.Ezekiel 16:1-63Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.Revelation 3:17-18Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:Luke 10:29But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?Ezekiel 23:1-49The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
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