But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.
- KJV Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
- NKJV Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods. Therefore I will deliver you no more.
- NASB Yet you abandoned Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer save you.
- NLT Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. So I will not rescue you anymore.
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Quick answer
Because Israel has forsaken him for other gods, the LORD declares he will save them no more. His words confront the cycle of empty repentance.
Overview
God's stern refusal exposes the hollowness of repentance that seeks rescue without forsaking idols. It is a rhetorical pressing meant to drive Israel to true contrition, not a final abandonment. Even here the LORD's discipline is designed to break their self-deception and restore them, as the unfolding narrative shows his compassion is not exhausted.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Jer 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- 1 Chr 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
- Judg 2:12Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,
- Jonah 2:8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
- Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
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Israel's cycle of sin and rescue through flawed deliverers cries out for a Savior who never fails — the true and final Judge and Deliverer who saves his people not for a season but forever.
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