Jeremiah 9:2

Jeremiah 9:2 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

2Oh, that I had in the desert

a lodging place for travelers,

so that I might leave my people

and go away from them;

for they are all adulterers,

a crowd of unfaithful people.

2 9:2 Ch 9:1 in HebOh that I had in the desert

A travelers’ lodging place;

So that I might leave my people

And go away from them!

For all of them are adulterers,

An assembly of treacherous people.

2Oh that I had in the desert

A wayfarers’ lodging place;

That I might leave my people

And go from them!

For all of them are adulterers,

An assembly of treacherous men.

2Oh that I had in the wilderness

A lodging place (a mere shelter) for wayfaring men,

That I might leave my people

And go away from them!

For they are all adulterers [worshiping idols instead of the Lord],

[They are] an assembly of treacherous men [of weak character, men without integrity].

2If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness,

I would abandon my people and depart from them,

for they are all adulterers,

a crowd of faithless people.

2I wish I had somewhere to go in the desert

where a traveler could stay!

Then I could leave my people.

I could get away from them.

All of them commit adultery by worshiping other gods.

They aren’t faithful to the Lord.