TSK · Jeremiah 2:17

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant–

Curses as Reversal of Blessings“But if you ignore the LORD your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

A Word of Judgment But the LORD took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

“But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

You led your people like a flock of sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

He led them on a level road, that they might find a city in which to live.

Severe discipline is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof will die.

We have rebelled and tried to deceive the LORD; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.

“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”

“The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”

Israel’s King Unable to Deliver the Nation I will destroy you, O Israel! Who is there to help you?