10 Cross over to Cyprus[a](A) and take a look.
Send someone to Kedar(B) and consider carefully;
see if there has ever been anything like this:
11 Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?(C)
(But they were not gods!(D))
Yet My people have exchanged their[b] Glory
for useless idols.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:10 Lit to the islands of Kittim
  2. Jeremiah 2:11 Ancient Jewish tradition reads My

10 Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus(A) and look,
    send to Kedar[a](B) and observe closely;
    see if there has ever been anything like this:
11 Has a nation ever changed its gods?
    (Yet they are not gods(C) at all.)
But my people have exchanged their glorious(D) God
    for worthless idols.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:10 In the Syro-Arabian desert

10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

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