Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.
- BSB But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
- 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 2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- 1 Chr 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
- Judg 2:12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
- Jonah 2:8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- Deut 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed 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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