Jeremiah 2:13
For two evils have my people committed: me have they forsaken, the source of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
14Is Israel a servant? or one born [to servitude] in the house? why hath he been given up to plunder?
Cross References
Judges 10:13And yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods; wherefore I will deliver you no more.
2 Kings 22:17Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense unto other gods, in order to provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands: therefore is my wrath kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
Psalms 81:11(81:12) But my people did not hearken to my voice; and Israel was not willing [to follow] me.
Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun: and, behold, all is vanity and a torture of the spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is many a man whose toil is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and with energy; yet to a man that hath not toiled therefore must he give it as his portion. Also this 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 →