Jeremiah 2:25
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

Young's Literal Translation
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, ‘It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.’

King James Bible
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

Hebrew
Keep
מִנְעִ֤י (min·‘î)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 4513: To debar, from benefit, injury

your feet
רַגְלֵךְ֙ (raḡ·lêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda

from being unshod
מִיָּחֵ֔ף (mî·yā·ḥêp̄)
Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 3182: Unsandalled

and your throat
וּגְרוֹנֵ֖ךְ (ū·ḡə·rō·w·nêḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1637: A threshing-floor, open area

from thirst.
מִצִּמְאָ֑ה (miṣ·ṣim·’āh)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6773: Parched condition

But you say,
וַתֹּאמְרִ֣י (wat·tō·mə·rî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘It is hopeless!
נוֹאָ֔שׁ (nō·w·’āš)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2976: To desist, to despond

I love
אָהַ֥בְתִּי (’ā·haḇ·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f

foreign [gods],
זָרִ֖ים (zā·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

and I must go after
וְאַחֲרֵיהֶ֥ם (wə·’a·ḥă·rê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

them.’
אֵלֵֽךְ׃ (’ê·lêḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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