Yeremia 2:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Para imam tidak lagi bertanya: Di manakah TUHAN? Orang-orang yang melaksanakan hukum tidak mengenal Aku lagi, dan para gembala mendurhaka terhadap Aku. Para nabi bernubuat demi Baal, mereka mengikuti apa yang tidak berguna.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Para imam tidak lagi bertanya: Di manakah TUHAN? Orang-orang yang melaksanakan hukum tidak mengenal Aku lagi, dan para gembala mendurhaka terhadap Aku. Para nabi bernubuat demi Baal, mereka mengikuti apa yang tidak berguna.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa segala imam tiada berkata demikian: Di manakah Tuhan? dan segala pemegang hukumpun tiada mengetahui akan Daku, dan segala gembalapun bersalah kepada-Ku, dan segala nabipun bernubuat dengan nama Baal, dan diturutnya akan perkara yang tiada memberi faedah.

Contextual Overview

¹ Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying: ² Go thy way, crye in the eares of Hierusalem, and say, Thus saith the Lorde: I remember thee, the kindnesse of thy youth, and the loue of thy despousyng, in that thou folowedst me through the wildernesse in an vntylled lande. ³ Israel was an halowed thyng vnto the Lorde, and was his first fruites: All they that deuour Israel shall offende, misfortune shall fall vpon them, saith the Lorde. ⁴ Heare therfore the worde of the Lord O thou house of Iacob, and all the generations of the house of Israel. ⁵ Thus saith the Lorde, What vnfaithfulnesse founde your fathers in me, that they went so farre away fro me, fallyng to lightnesse, and beyng so vayne? ⁶ They thought not in their heartes, where is the Lord that brought vs out of the lande of Egypt, that led vs thorowe the wildernesse, through a desert & rough lande, through a drye and deadly lande, yea a lande that no man had gone through, and wherin no man had dwelt? ⁷ And when I had brought you into a pleasauut fertile lande, that ye myght enioy the fruites & all the commodities of the same: ye went foorth and defiled my lande, and brought mine heritage to abhomination. ⁸ The priestes them selues sayde not, Where is the Lord? They that had the lawe in their handes knewe me not, the sheepheardes offended agaynst me, the prophetes did prophecie in Baal, and folowed such thinges as shal bryng them no profite.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

priests: Jeremiah 2:6, Jeremiah 5:31, Jeremiah 8:10, Jeremiah 8:11, Jeremiah 23:9-15, 1 Samuel 2:12, Isaiah 28:7, Isaiah 29:10, Isaiah 56:9-12, Hosea 4:6

and they that: Jeremiah 8:8, Jeremiah 8:9, Deuteronomy 33:10, Malachi 2:6-9, Luke 11:52, John 8:55, John 16:3, Romans 2:17-24, 2 Corinthians 4:2

the pastors: Jeremiah 10:21, Jeremiah 12:10, Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 23:2

prophets: Jeremiah 23:13, 1 Kings 18:29, 1 Kings 18:22, 1 Kings 18:40

do not: Jeremiah 2:11, Jeremiah 7:8, 1 Samuel 12:21, Isaiah 30:5, Habakkuk 2:18, Matthew 16:26

Reciprocal: Leviticus 10:11 - General Deuteronomy 18:20 - in the name Job 33:27 - it profited Psalms 119:99 - than all Ecclesiastes 5:16 - what Jeremiah 6:13 - and Jeremiah 14:18 - go about Jeremiah 16:11 - Because Jeremiah 22:22 - thy pastors Lamentations 2:14 - prophets Ezekiel 22:26 - priests Ezekiel 34:2 - the shepherds Malachi 2:11 - profaned 2 Timothy 2:14 - to no

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.

Genesis 2:9
Moreouer, out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree, that was fayre to syght, and pleasaunt to eate: The tree of lyfe in the myddest of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euyll.

Genesis 3:24
And so he droue out man, and at the east side of the garde of Eden he set Cherubins, and a fierie two edged sworde, to kepe the way of the tree of lyfe.

Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lorde, & dwelt in the lande of Nod, eastwarde from Eden.

Genesis 13:10
And so Lot lyftyng vp his eyes, behelde all the countrey of Iordane, whiche was well watred euery where before the Lorde destroyed Sodome and Gomorrh, euen as the garden of the Lorde, lyke the lande of Egypt as thou commest vnto Soar.

2 Kings 19:12
Haue the gods of the heathen deliuered them, whiche myne auncestours haue destroyed? As Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelassar?

Isaiah 51:3
Therfore shall the Lorde comfort Sion, and repayre all her decay, makyng her desert as a paradise, and her wildernesse as the garden of the Lorde: Mirth and ioy shalbe founde there, thankesgeuyng and the voyce of prayse.

Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, Chenne, and Eden, the marchauntes of Seba, Assyria, and Chelmad were doers with thee:

Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast ben in the pleasaunt garden of God, thou art deckt with all maner of precious stones, with ruby, topas, diamond, thurkis, onyx, iasper, saphir, emeralde, carbuncle, and golde: the workemanship of thy timbrels and of thy pipes [that be] in thee, was prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Ezekiel 31:16
I made the heathen shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast hym downe to hell with them that descend into the pit: all the excellent trees of Eden, & the best of Libanus, all that drinke waters, shalbe comforted in the neather partes of the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The priests said not, where is the Lord?.... Whose business it was to draw nigh to God, and offer the sacrifices of the people, and inquire of God for them; whose lips should keep knowledge, and at whose mouth the law should be sought, they being the messengers of the Lord of hosts, Malachi 2:7:

and they that handle the law knew me not; the sanhedrim, according to Jarchi; or the lawyers and scribes, the Rabbins and doctors of the law, whose business it was to read and explain it; these did not understand it, nor the mind of God in it; and much less did they know him in a spiritual and evangelical manner; or as he is in Christ, and revealed in the Gospel:

the pastors also transgressed against me; kings, as the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi interpret it, who were pastors or shepherds in a civil sense; whose business it was to feed the people as the shepherd does his flock; that is, to guide and govern them by wholesome laws, by the laws of God; but, instead of this, they rebelled against the Lord, and transgressed his commands:

and the prophets prophesied by Baal; in his name; pretending to be inspired by that idol, and to receive the spirit of prophecy from him:

and walked after things that do not profit; the gods of the Gentiles, which could not supply them with the least temporal blessing, and much less give them spiritual and eternal ones; see Jeremiah 14:22. This is to be understood of false prophets, as Ben Melech.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The guilt of this idolatry is ascribed to the four ruling classes:

(a) The accusation brought against the priests is indifference.

(b) “They that handle the law” belonged also to the priestly class Deuteronomy 33:10. Their offence was that “they knew not God.” Compare Micah 3:11.

(c) The third class are “the pastors” or shepherds, that is the temporal rulers. Their crime is disobedience.

(d) The fourth class are “the prophets.” It was their business to press the moral and spiritual truths of the law home to the hearts of the people: but they drew their inspiration from Baal, the Sun-god. Upon the corruption of the prophetic order at this time, see the Jeremiah 14:13 note.

Things that do not profit - Here idols, which are not merely unreal, but injurious. See 1 Samuel 12:21; Isaiah 44:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 2:8. They that handle the law — ותפשי vethophe shey, they that draw out the law; they whose office it is to explain it, draw out its spiritual meanings, and show to what its testimonies refer.

The pastors also — Kings, political and civil rulers.

Prophesied by Baal — Became his prophets, and were inspired with the words of lying spirits.