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Read Full Chapter (Jeremiah 2) Jeremiah 2:13 KJV
"For 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."
Jeremiah Chapter 2, Verse 13
Jeremiah 2:13 in Context (Verses 10–16 KJV)
10
For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.*
11
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
12
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
13
For 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.
14
¶ Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?*
15
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.*
16
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.*