Jeremiah 2:19

“For the turning away of the simple will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them.

“Your ways and your deeds Have done these things to you. This is your evil. How bitter! How it has touched your heart!”

‘Do you not fear Me?’ declares Yahweh. ‘Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, A perpetual statute, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.

“If you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things happened to me?’ Because of the magnitude of your iniquity Your skirts have been uncovered And your heels have suffered violence.

“Because they have forsaken Me and have made this a foreign place and have burned incense in it to other gods, that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent

because of their evil which they did so as to provoke Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.

“According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.”’”

And they do not say to their hearts That I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; They are before My face.

It is your ruin, O Israel, That you are against Me, against your help.

All this is for the transgression of Jacob And for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? What is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?