Jeremiah 2:25

Context

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

and your throats become dry.¹

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

because I love those foreign gods² and want to pursue them!’

Psalms 119:101

Context

119:101 I stay away³ from the evil path,

so that I might keep your instructions.⁴

[2:25] ¹tn Heb “Refrain your feet from being bare and your throat from being dry/thirsty.”

[2:25] ²tn Heb “It is useless! No!” For this idiom, see Jer 18:12; NEB “No; I am desperate.”

[119:101] ³tn Heb “I hold back my feet.”

[119:101] ⁴tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew mss read the plural.