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TWOT Reference: 484a
Jehovah = "the existing One"
the proper name of the one true God
unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of H136
Strong's Number H3068 matches the Hebrew יְהֹוָה (Yᵊhōvâ),
which occurs 712 times in 614 verses in 'Jer'
in the WLC Hebrew.
Page 1 / 13 (Jer 1:2–Jer 5:3)
But the LORD said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am [only] a young man,’
Because everywhere I send you, you shall go,
And whatever I command you, you shall speak.
“Do not be afraid of them [or their hostile faces],
For I am with you [always] to protect you and deliver you,” says the LORD.
Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me,
“Behold (hear Me), I have put My words in your mouth.
The word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see the branch of an [fn]almond tree.”
The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, tilting away from the north [its mouth about to pour out on the south, on Judea].”
“I remember [earnestly] the lovingkindness and devotion of [fn]your youth,
Your time of betrothal [like that of a bride during the early years in Egypt and again at Sinai],
When you followed Me in the wilderness,
Through a land not sown.
“[fn]Israel was holy [something set apart from ordinary purposes, consecrated] to the LORD,
The first fruits of His harvest [in which no outsider was allowed to share].
All who ate of it [injuring Israel] became guilty;
Evil came on them,” says the LORD.’”
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
“What injustice or unrighteousness did your fathers find in Me,
That they have wandered far from Me
And [habitually] walked after emptiness and futility and became empty?
“They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD
Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and of pits,
Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death],
Through a land that no man passed through
And where no man lived?’
“[Even] the priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’
And those who deal with the law [given to Moses] did not know Me.
The rulers and shepherds also transgressed against Me,
And the prophets prophesied by [the authority and in the name of] Baal
And walked after [idolatrous] things that did not benefit [them].
“Therefore I will still contend (struggle) with you [by bringing judgment on you],” says the LORD,
“And I will contend with your children’s children.”
“Be appalled, O heavens, at this;
Be shocked and shudder with horror [at the behavior of the people],” says the LORD.
“Have you not brought this on yourself
By abandoning (rejecting) the LORD your God
When He led you in the way?
“Your own wickedness will discipline you,
And your desertion of the faith will punish you.
Know therefore that it is an evil and bitter thing
For you to abandon (reject) the LORD your God,
And for you to be indifferent to Me and dismiss the [reverent] fear of Me,” says the Lord GOD of hosts.
“Why do you complain and contend with Me?
You have all rebelled (transgressed) against Me,” says the LORD.
“O generation [that you are], consider and regard carefully the word of the LORD.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel [like a land without food],
A land of thick and deep darkness [like a path without light]?
Why do My people say, ‘We [have broken loose and we] are free to roam [at will];
We will no longer come to You’?
“From Egypt also you will come away [as captives]
With your hands on your head;
For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust (confide),
And you will not be successful with them.”
That is to say, “If a man divorces his wife
And she goes [away] from him
And becomes another man’s [wife],
Will he return to her again? [Of course not!]
Will not that land [where such a thing happened] be completely desecrated?
But you [rebelled against Me and you] are a prostitute with many lovers;
Yet you turn to Me.” says the LORD.
Moreover, the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king [of Judah], “Have you seen what that faithless Israel has done—how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there she was a prostitute?
And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has proved herself less guilty than treacherous Judah [a land of renegades].
‘Return, faithless Israel,’ says the LORD;
‘I will not [fn]look on you in anger.
For I am gracious and merciful,’ says the LORD;
‘I will not be angry forever.
‘Only understand fully and acknowledge your wickedness and guilt,
That you have rebelled (transgressed) against the LORD your God
And have scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the LORD.
‘Return, O faithless children [of the twelve tribes],’ says the LORD,
‘For I am a master and husband to you,
And I will take you [not as a nation, but individually]—one from a city and two from a [tribal] family—
And I will bring you to Zion.’
“Surely, as a wife treacherously (unfaithfully) leaves her husband,
So you have dealt treacherously with Me,
O house of Israel,” says the LORD.
A voice is heard on the barren heights,
The weeping and pleading of the children of Israel,
Because they have lost their way,
They have [deliberately] forgotten the LORD their God.
“Return, O faithless sons,” [says the LORD],
“I will heal your unfaithfulness.”
[They answer] “Behold, we come to You,
For You are the LORD our God.
“Truly, [the hope of salvation from] the hill [where idols are worshiped] is a deception,
A tumult and noisy multitude on the mountains;
Truly in the LORD our God
Is the salvation of Israel.
“If you will return, O Israel,” says the LORD,
“If you will return to Me,
And if you will put away your detestable things and remove your man-made gods from My sight,
And not stray or waver,
And if you swear [your oaths], ‘As the LORD lives,’
In truth, in justice, and in righteousness,
Then the nations will bless themselves in Him,
And in Him they will glory.”
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
“Plow your uncultivated ground [for a season],
And do not sow among thorns.
“Circumcise (dedicate, sanctify) yourselves to the LORD
And remove the foreskin [sins] of your heart,
Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Or else My wrath will go forth like fire [consuming all that gets in its way]
And burn and there will be no one to quench it,
Because of the evil of your acts.”
“For this reason, put on sackcloth [for mourning],
Lament (mourn with expressions of grief for the dead) and wail,
For the fierce anger of the LORD
Has not turned back from us.”
“It shall come about in that day,” says the LORD, “that the heart and courage of the king will fail (be paralyzed), and also the heart of the princes; the priests will be appalled and the prophets will be astounded and horrified.”
‘Like watchmen of a field they are against her on all sides,
Because she has rebelled against Me,’ says the LORD.
I looked, and behold, the fertile land was a wilderness,
And all its cities were pulled down
Before the [presence of the] LORD, before His fierce anger.
Therefore says the LORD,
“The whole land shall be a desolation,
Yet I will not cause total destruction.
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth?
You [have seen their faithless heart and] have stricken them,
But they did not weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they refused to take correction or instruction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent and return to You.
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