Jeremiah 2:13

13 for my people have committed two evils: 1they have forsaken 2me, the fountain of 3living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 2:13 In-Context

11 Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the LORD,
13 for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
14 "Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?
15 The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

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