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Jeremiah 2:13

Verse 13 of 37. The 2nd of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.

9Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.

10For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

11Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.

13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

14Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?

15The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

16Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?

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Jeremiah 2:13 in the World English Bible

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
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Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:13

Heaven itself is here called upon to stand amazed at the sin and folly of these apostates from God (v. 12, 13): Be astonished, O you heavens! at this. The earth is so universally corrupt that it will take no notice of it; but let the heavens and heavenly bodies be astonished at it. Let the sun blush to see such ingratitude and be afraid to shine upon such ungrateful wretches.

Read Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:9–13: Expostulations with Israel. (b. c. 629.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.