Jer 2:10-19 Thine Own Wickedness Shall Correct Thee

[Study Aired December 27, 2020]

Jer 2:10  For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
Jer 2:11  Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jer 2:12  Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Jer 2:13  For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jer 2:14  Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
Jer 2:15  The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Jer 2:16  Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
Jer 2:17  Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Jer 2:18  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?
Jer 2:19  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.

In our last study the Lord reminded us of how we once depended upon Him, and we expected Him to save us from all our enemies. However, after He did so we took His glory to ourselves and did not give all glory to Him to whom it belonged.

Here are the last four verses of last week’s study:

Jer 2:6  Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jer 2:7  And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
Jer 2:8  The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
Jer 2:9  Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.

This prophecy is not addressed to those who are not given ears that hear. It is addressed to those with whom the Lord is pleading. It is addressed to those to whom the Lord is revealing that they have absolutely nothing to bring to Him. It is to reveal to us that we have no way at all to save ourselves or to make ourselves appealing to our Husband. This prophecy of Jeremiah is telling us that it is the Lord Himself who brings us “out of the land of Egypt”, out of our abject servitude to the fear of men, and the humiliating lusts of our flesh by breaking the deadly, vicious hold our natural man has upon us. The Lord drags us, against our own natural desires and against our own will, “through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt.” That is the very definition of the word ‘drag’ in this verse of scripture in the New Testament:

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw [G1670: ‘helkuo’, to drag] him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

In other words, the Lord reveals, and is revealing to us, that before we can enter into Him and He can enter into us, before we can become “the bride, the Lamb’s wife”, we must first begin to fulfill the seven last plagues of our Husband’s wrath against that kingdom of our old  man who is loathe to leave Egypt:

Exo 14:11  And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Exo 14:12  Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

It is because we just naturally refuse to die to our old man that we must “through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Rev 15:1  And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
Rev 15:2  And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Rev 15:3  And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Rev 15:4  Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall [be dragged to] come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
Rev 15:5  And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
Rev 15:6  And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
Rev 15:7  And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled [aorist tense… were being fulfilled].

What does it mean to be ‘one of the seven angels which have the seven last plagues which fill up the wrath of God’? This prophecy of Jeremiah will tell us what that means. When one of these seven angels showed the judgment of the great harlot to John, then John, who typifies each of us, fell down to worship that angel. When he did so, this is what that angel revealed to John about whom these seven angels typify:

Rev 17:1  And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2  With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

Chapter seventeen reveals to us who this great whore is who rules over the kingdoms of this world, and chapter eighteen reveals her judgment and her destruction at the hands of the ten horns of the very beast whom she has for so long dominated. Chapter eighteen ends with this very cryptic summary of the function of this symbolic ‘great whore’:

Rev 18:24  And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

That is what prompted the Lord to destroy this great harlot at the hands of the very beast she dominated for so long. When the beast destroys the harlot, he then fights with the Lord, and he, too, is destroyed by the Lord and His Christ, which ‘Christ’ is revealed to be the Lord’s wife:

Rev 19:1  And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
Rev 19:2  For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Rev 19:9  And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

At this point John is so impressed with all this angel has revealed to him that he tells us what we all do when the Lord sends this angel to us:

Rev 19:10  And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy [“Feed my sheep” (Joh 21:15-17 and 1Co 14:3)].

The incredible revelations continue to come. The angel then reveals to John that the destruction of that harlot within us produces “the bride, the Lamb’s wife” (Rev 21:9) and John, typifying each of us, again falls down and worships the angel who is showing him all these things. This time the angel, in rebuking John, reveals to us what it means to be “one of the seven angels having the seven last plagues”:

Rev 22:8  And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
Rev 22:9  Then saith he unto me, [again, Rev 19:10) See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

What a revelation indeed! The seven angels who have the seven last plagues to be poured out on the earth are those who “keep the sayings of this book”! In other words, these seven angels typify those who are themselves the first to endure the seven last plagues of the judgment of God. It is they who are standing on that “sea of glass mingled with fire”. It is ‘glass mingled with fire’ because this sea of glass mingled with fire consists of unstable sand which has already been put through the fiery trials which are those seven last plagues of the wrath of God upon the kingdom of our old man.

What that means is the seven angels who have the seven last plagues who “keep the sayings of this book” are also those who will rule with Christ over the kingdoms of this world for a thousand years.

Rev 1:6  And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Rev 5:8  And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
Rev 5:9  And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Rev 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Rev 12:5  And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

Rev 19:15  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

Being “made… kings and priests unto God and His Father” is not to be taken lightly:

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Rev 22:5  And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

The Lord pulls no punches as He reveals to us all the rebellions which are part of our journey out of Egyptian slavery and into the promised land, only to be seduced by the nations around us and then carried out of the promised land. We are taken into Assyrian, Babylonian slavery for seventy years, signifying just how completely incapable of delivering ourselves from “the body of this death” we are in and of ourselves:

Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

The answer to Paul’s question is the answer to the mystery of life itself. Christ in us is the only hope any of us will ever have to know what the glory of ruling and reigning with Him is, first over all the kingdoms of this wicked world within us.

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
Col 1:25  Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

That is the struggle which overcomes us and which we are made to face in this prophecy of Jeremiah:

Jer 2:7  And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

Then, through our judgment which comes only through the fiery trials and plagues which the Lord has already written in our ‘book’… if we are “predestinated”  to be His bride, we will stand on that sea of glass mingled with fire (Rev 15:1-2) to rule with Him over the nations of this world for a thousand years, all in preparation for becoming the conduit of the chastening grace of God which will reconcile everyone and everything in heaven and on earth to the Lord through our mercy (Rom 11:30-31, Tit 2:11-12).

Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12  Teaching [G3811: ‘paideuo’, chastening] us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

It is because of our high calling that we must first come to know ourselves, and to know exactly who our old man is to the degree which he is revealed in this prophecy of Jeremiah. That is why we must never forget the pit from which we are dug:

Isa 51:1  Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Isa 51:2  Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

“The rock whence ye are hewn and…the hole of the pit whence ye are digged” are interpreted in verse two as referring to Abraham and Sarah. What do we see when we “look unto… Abraham and Sarah”? What we see is a 99-year-old man and an 89-year-old barren wife with absolutely no hope of ever bearing any children. That is what the Lord means when He says, “Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.” That is he whom the Lord called and increased. That is whence we all have come. We are all being called out of a hopelessly barren, dying life, and we are being given an increase of “more abundant… life”:

Joh 10:10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

What the Lord wants us to know is that, not only are we a rebellious, self-willed people, we are also totally incapable of delivering ourselves from “the body of this death”:

Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

The Lord Himself brings us to this hopeless realization. It is He who commands the stormy winds of life which bring us to our wits’ end:

Psa 107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Psa 107:25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

Which brings us to our next verse here in Isaiah 51:

Isa 51:3  For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

That is “how the book ends” in each of the writers we have referenced. Here are the very next verses of Psalms 107:

Psa 107:28  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:29  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Psa 107:30  Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

This is the very next verse of Romans 7:

Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

King David is known for trying to hide his sin with Bathsheba and for his repentance from that sin. In his hypocrisy, he typifies us. This was his punishment, and if we are the Lord’s elect, it is also our judgment:

2Sa 12:10  Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

Despite all of our sins, and they are many, this is also how the story ends in the book of the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Rev 21:3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Rev 21:4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Psalm 136 has 26 verses, and every verse ends in the same way. I will quote only the first verse and the last four verses:

Psa 136:1  O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

The next 21 verses end with, “for His mercy endureth for ever” ending with these four verses:

Psa 136:23  Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psa 136:24  And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psa 136:25  Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psa 136:26  O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.

“His mercy endures forever” does not contradict “the sword shall never depart from thy house.” Rather, “His mercy endures forever” simply explains what His goodness is which leads us to repentance. We do not repent because the Lord gives us a pat on the shoulder and tells us He loves us. We repent because:

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

His chastening and scourging are part of His love for us. They are the two counterparts to our “two evils” which give the Lord the occasion He is seeking to destroy the kingdom of our old man. The heathen nations serve gods which are not gods at all. Yet they are faithful to their idols. Not even the heathen have forsaken their gods in the way we forsake our God:

Jer 2:10  For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

‘Chittim’ is taken by all the commentaries to mean Cyprus, and by extension all the Mediterranean islands. ‘Kedar’ is an Arabian city to the east of Israel, and by extension all the Arab countries. What the Lord is saying is simply go to the west or go to the east and you will not find a single heathen country which has not been faithful to their false gods. Yet we have been unfaithful to the one and only true God who has proven Himself to be our deliverer repeatedly.

Jer 2:11  Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jer 2:12  Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Jer 2:13  For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Why, the Lord asks, would anyone exchange the real thing for a counterfeit? He will bring horrible fear upon us. We will be made desolate, both within and outwardly, because we have 1) forsaken the fountain of living waters and 2) hewed out broken cisterns which cannot hold the waters of life.

It is only through being brought to be “horribly afraid” and being made “very desolate” and being made aware of the hollow life we are leading that we are made to know who we are and what we have done to our loving Husband.

We have been made a slave to our passions and sins. Yet we are empty and desolate, and the Lord then asks us:

Jer 2:14  Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
Jer 2:15  The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

Our enemies who know that we once professed to know our Lord now lord themselves over us and spoil us:

Jer 2:16  Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
Jer 2:17  Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

‘Noph and Tahapanes’ are Egyptian cities which signify how our flesh has been given dominion over us to our shame. It is our submission to our rebellious flesh which has “procured” the dominion of ‘Noph and Tahapanes’, the dominion of our flesh over us.

Inwardly we believed at one time that if we kept the right days, months, times and years, and if we simply paid our tithes, then we would be in a position to expect blessings from the Lord. Such a mindset actually feeds the false doctrine of having free will and is the exact opposite of the point the Lord is making when He asks us to consider the rock from which He has hewn us and the hole of the pit from whence He dug us.

Isa 51:1  Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Isa 51:2  Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Abraham and Sarah were two old fruitless idol worshippers from Ur of the Chaldees, whose future appeared completely hopeless, and yet the Lord promised to make of that couple a great nation which would inherit the whole world:

Rom 4:13  For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

The Lord wants us to consider the foolishness of the ways of our flesh. He wants us to see clearly how little our old man has to offer compared to what He is doing with our new man.

Jer 2:18  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?

‘Sihor’ is the river of Egypt which we call the Nile River. “The waters of Sihor” symbolize the doctrines of this world. “The waters of the river… of Assyria” are what the scriptures call “the rivers of Babylon”:

Psa 137:1  By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Psa 137:2  We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Psa 137:3  For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psa 137:4  How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a strange land?

The question the Lord is posing to us is, “What have we to do in the ways and doctrines of Egypt, the ways and doctrines of this world? What have we to do in the ways and doctrines of Babylon?” The fact is that we simply cannot serve two masters.

Mat 6:22  The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Mat 6:24  No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Notice that “if [our] eye is single” is contrasted with “if thy eye be evil”. The Lord requires that we should never to be double-minded:

Jas 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Jas 1:6  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Jas 1:7  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Jas 1:8  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Having a double mind defiles our heart before the Lord:

Jas 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

We simply cannot be a friend of this world and at the same time be a friend of God:

Jas 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

We just naturally want to fit in with this world and all its traditions and ways. We just naturally want to “fight for and defend God and country”, and we just naturally want to take part in all the holidays and seasonal traditions of those all around us, but at the same time we think of ourselves as the Lord’s very elect.

To all this the Lord tells us:

Jer 2:19  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.

‘It is an evil thing and bitter that we have forsaken our Lord’ is the occasion the Lord is seeking to judge us for committing spiritual fornication against our own spiritual husband and “losing our first love” and accommodating the throne of Satan, accommodating the Nicolaitans, and permitting the murderous doctrines and teachings of that woman Jezebel within us. Our own wickedness will correct us, and we will be tormented with the doctrine of our own free will making us to err from the Lord’s ways, resulting in a sense of hopelessness and fear which will torment us until we stand corrected and are brought to repentance.

That is our study for today, and here are our verses for our next study:

Jer 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.
Jer 2:21  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?
Jer 2:22  For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
Jer 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;
Jer 2:24  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.
Jer 2:25  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.
Jer 2:26  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,
Jer 2:27  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.
Jer 2:28  But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.