“Keep your feet from being bare,and your throat from thirst.But you said, ‘It is in vain.No, for I have loved strangers,and I will go after them.’”
Jeremiah 2:25 (WEB)
Context Reading
23“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, 24a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving.When she is in heat, who can turn her away?All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her. 25“Keep your feet from being bare,and your throat from thirst.But you said, ‘It is in vain.No, for I have loved strangers,and I will go after them.’ 26As the thief is ashamed when he is found,so the house of Israel is ashamed — they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, 27who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’for they have turned their back to me,and not their face,but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’