Jeremiah 2:13
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.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
14Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a prey?
Cross References
Judges 10:13Yet ye have forsaken Me, and served other gods; wherefore I will save you no more.
2 Kings 22:17because they have forsaken Me, and have offered unto other gods, that they might provoke Me with all the work of their hands; therefore My wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.
Psalms 81:11(81-12) But My people hearkened not to My voice; and Israel would none of Me.
Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is a man whose labour is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:10-14
Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord , and with your children's children will I plead. 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… Read the whole commentary →