Jeremiah 2:7

Context

2:7 I brought you¹ into a fertile land

so you could enjoy² its fruits and its rich bounty.

But when you entered my land, you defiled it;³

you made the land I call my own⁴ loathsome to me.

[2:7] ¹sn Note how contemporary Israel is again identified with her early ancestors. See the study note on 2:2.

[2:7] ²tn Heb “eat.”

[2:7] ³sn I.e., made it ceremonially unclean. See Lev 18:19-30; Num 35:34; Deut 21:23.

[2:7] ⁴tn Heb “my inheritance.” Or “the land [i.e., inheritance] I gave you,” reading the pronoun as indicating source rather than possession. The parallelism and the common use in Jeremiah of the term to refer to the land or people as the Lord’s (e.g., 12:7, 8, 9; 16:18; 50:11) make the possessive use more likely here.