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Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt

Jeremiah 2:11

Rembrandt, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · Public domainRembrandt, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Jeremiah 2:11 (WEB)

Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

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John Cassian

John Chrysostom

  • “This God also did unto the Jews, when He said, “Go ye forth unto the Isles of Chittim, and send unto Kedar, and know if nations will change their gods; which yet are no gods.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 10, 11. [The citation is much abbreviated from the LXX., which does not vary materially from the Hebrew.—R.]

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Basil the Great

Aphrahat

  • “But they forsook Him, and worshipped idols, as Jeremiah said concerning them:—Go to the distant isles, and send to Kedar, and consider well and see, whether there has been (anything) like this, whether the nations change their gods, those that are no gods.” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 10–13.

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