Jer 2:25 | NETfull | STEP | Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’

Jeremiah 2:25

25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out
and your throats become dry. ^{▼▼ Heb “Refrain your feet from being bare and your throat from being dry/thirsty.”}
But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me
because I love those foreign gods ^{▼▼ Heb “It is useless! No!” For this idiom, see Jer 18:12; NEB “No; I am desperate.”} and want to pursue them!’