Jeremiah 2:7
7 I brought you ▼ into a fertile land
so you could enjoy ▼
▼tn Heb “eat.”
its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; ▼
you made the land I call my own ▼
▼tn 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.
▼ loathsome to me.
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