Jeremiah 2:11
Verse 11 of 37. The 2nd of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.
7I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
8The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.
9“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the LORD, “and I will contend with your children’s children.
10For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.
11Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
12“Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says the LORD.
13“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.
14Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?
15The young lions have roared at him and raised their voices. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.