OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 2:20

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“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

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Verse 20. Thou. Septuagint Yet Hebrew and Chal. have, “I have permissively broken,” or foretold this infidelity.

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