Hi, this is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day where I pray you through the Bible verse by verse

joyfully with intention and with hope and with lots of prayer. So today we are finishing up

Jeremiah chapter 2 and we can just hear the heartbeat of God, the agony of God, the profound sense of I have given you everything and you have

forsaken me. Yesterday we read the words about, we've forsaken the fountain of living waters and dug

for ourselves cisterns that can hold no water. Some of my favorite verses in the whole Bible.

And it's such a beautiful idea that, and sad, but that God offers us this living water,

this stream of amazingness of constant renewal and we forsake it and we go ahead and dig a hole

in the ground that can't hold water and hope for rain, but the Lord provides for us constantly.

We just need to be connected to that. Okay, done preaching.

Here we go with Jeremiah 2, 20 through 37 World English Bible. This is what it says.

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 yet i had planted you a noble vine a pure and faithful seed how then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me for though you wash yourself with lie and use much soap yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord

Yahweh. How can you say, I am not defiled? I have not gone after the bales. See your way in the valley.

Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways, a wild donkey used to the

wilderness that sniffs in the wind in her craving.

When she is in heat, who can turn her away?

All those who seek her will not weary themselves.

In her month they will find her.

Keep your feet from being bare and your throat from thirst, but you said,

it is in vain, no, for I have loved strangers and I will go after them.

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed.

They, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, who tell a wood,

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