Jeremiah 2:25

2:25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out

and your throats become dry.

But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me

because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’

Jeremiah 2:28

2:28 But where are the gods you made for yourselves?

Let them save you when you are in trouble.

The sad fact is that you have as many gods

as you have towns, Judah.


tn Heb “Refrain your feet from being bare and your throat from being dry/thirsty.”

tn Heb “It is useless! No!” For this idiom, see Jer 18:12; NEB “No; I am desperate.”

tn This is an attempt to render the Hebrew particle כִּי (ki, “for, indeed”) contextually.