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    This is the case that I bring against you and your descendants:
10     You can search from the coastlands of Kittim in the west
        to the deserts of Kedar in the east, and you won’t find anything as sickening as this.
11     Has a nation ever exchanged its gods for some others,
        even if they weren’t really gods in the first place?
    But My beloved people have done just that: they have exchanged their glory
        to pursue worthless idols in their vain attempt for greater prosperity.

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“Therefore I bring charges(A) against you again,”
declares the Lord.
    “And I will bring charges against your children’s children.
10 Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus(B) and look,
    send to Kedar[a](C) 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(D) at all.)
But my people have exchanged their glorious(E) God
    for worthless idols.

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Footnotes

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