Jeremiah 2:10
New International Version
Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Kedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this:

New Living Translation
“Go west and look in the land of Cyprus; go east and search through the land of Kedar. Has anyone ever heard of anything as strange as this?

English Standard Version
For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.

Berean Standard Bible
Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

King James Bible
For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

New King James Version
For pass beyond the coasts of Cyprus and see, Send to Kedar and consider diligently, And see if there has been such a thing.

New American Standard Bible
“For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see, And send to Kedar and observe closely, And see if there has been anything like this!

NASB 1995
“For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see, And send to Kedar and observe closely And see if there has been such a thing as this!

NASB 1977
“For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see, And send to Kedar and observe closely, And see if there has been such a thing as this!

Legacy Standard Bible
For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see, And send to Kedar and perceive closely And see if there has been such a thing as this!

Amplified Bible
“For cross over to the coasts of Kittim (Cyprus) [to the west] and see, Send also to Kedar (Arabia) [to the east] and carefully observe and consider And see whether there has been such [a thing] as this!

Christian Standard Bible
Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look. Send someone to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Cross over to Cyprus and take a look. Send someone to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

American Standard Version
For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there hath been such a thing.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Pass over to the islands of the Khethites and see, and send to Qedar and understand well, and see if there was anything like this

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For go to the isles of the Chettians, and se; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;

Contemporary English Version
of a crime that no nation has ever committed before. Just ask anyone, anywhere, from the eastern deserts to the islands in the west.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like this.

English Revised Version
For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there hath been such a thing.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Go over to the coasts of Cyprus, and see. Send [someone] to Kedar, and observe closely. See if there has ever been anything like this.

Good News Translation
Go west to the island of Cyprus, and send someone eastward to the land of Kedar. You will see that nothing like this has ever happened before.

International Standard Version
"Indeed, go over to the coasts of Cyprus and see, send to Kedar and pay very close attention. See if there has ever been such a thing as this!

JPS Tanakh 1917
For pass over to the isles of the Kittites, and see, And send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, And see if there hath been such a thing.

Literal Standard Version
For pass to the islands of Chittim and see, | And send to Kedar and consider well, | And see if there has been [anything] like this:

Majority Standard Bible
Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

New American Bible
Cross to the coast of Cyprus and see, send to Kedar and carefully inquire: Where has anything like this been done?

NET Bible
Go west across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus and see. Send someone east to Kedar and have them look carefully. See if such a thing as this has ever happened:

New Revised Standard Version
Cross to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has ever been such a thing.

New Heart English Bible
For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.

Webster's Bible Translation
For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there is such a thing.

World English Bible
For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.

Young's Literal Translation
For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there hath been like this:

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Israel has Forsaken God
9Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children. 10 Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this: 11Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.…

Cross References
1 Kings 9:9
And others will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them--because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.'"

Psalm 120:5
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Isaiah 21:16
For this is what the Lord says to me: "Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

Isaiah 23:12
He said, "You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus--even there you will find no rest."

Jeremiah 18:13
Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.

Jeremiah 49:28
Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: "Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!

Ezekiel 5:7
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.'


Treasury of Scripture

For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

over.

Genesis 10:4,5
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim…

Numbers 24:24
And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

1 Chronicles 1:7
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Kedar

Genesis 25:13
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

and see

Jeremiah 18:13,14
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing…

Judges 19:30
And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.

1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

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Jeremiah 2
1. God having shown his former kindness,
5. expostulates with the people on their causeless and unexampled revolt
14. They are the causes of their own calamities
18. The sins and idolatries of Judah
35. Her confidence is rejected.














(10) Pass over the isles . . .--Chittim is named as being, from the prophet's point of view, the furthest country in the west (Genesis 10:4; Numbers 24:24), Kedar (Genesis 25:13; Psalm 120:5) in the east. The whole earth might be searched without finding a parallel to the guilt of Israel.

Verse 10. - Justification of Jehovah's judicial action towards Judah. Consider the heinousness of the offence. Pass over - rather, pass over to - the isles of Chittim; i.e. the islands and maritime countries of the West, represented by Cyprus (see on Genesis 10:4). For the wide use of Chittim, comp. Numbers 24:24; Daniel 11:30). Kedar, in the narrower sense, is a large tribe of Arabian origin, whose haunts were between Arabia Petraea and Babylonia. Here, however, it is used in a wider sense for the Arab tribes in general (so Jeremiah Tiler 28; Isaiah 21:16, 17).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Cross over
עִבְר֞וּ (‘iḇ·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

to Cyprus
כִתִּיִּים֙ (ḵit·tî·yîm)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3794: Kittim -- a son of Javan, also his descendants and their land

and take a look;
וּרְא֔וּ (ū·rə·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7200: To see

send
שִׁלְח֥וּ (šil·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

to Kedar
וְקֵדָ֛ר (wə·qê·ḏār)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6938: Kedar -- perhaps 'swarthy', a son of Ishmael, also his desc

and consider
וְהִֽתְבּוֹנְנ֖וּ (wə·hiṯ·bō·wn·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 995: To separate mentally, understand

carefully;
מְאֹ֑ד (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily

see
וּרְא֕וּ (ū·rə·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7200: To see

if
הֵ֥ן (hên)
Interjection
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!

there has ever been
הָיְתָ֖ה (hā·yə·ṯāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

anything like this:
כָּזֹֽאת׃ (kā·zōṯ)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,


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