Jeremiah 2:13
“For My people have done two evils, || They have forsaken Me, a fountain of living waters, || To hew out for themselves wells—broken wells, || That do not contain the waters.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
14[Is] Israel a servant? Is he a child of the house? Why has he been for a prey?
Cross References
Judges 10:13and you have forsaken Me, and serve other gods, therefore I do not add to save you.
2 Kings 22:17because that they have forsaken Me, and make incense to other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger with every work of their hands, and My wrath has been kindled against this place, and it is not quenched.
Psalms 81:11But My people did not listen to My voice, || And Israel has not consented to Me.
Psalms 146:3Do not trust in princes—in a son of man, || For he has no deliverance.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and behold, the whole [is] vanity and distress of spirit!
Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is a man whose labor [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who has not labored therein he gives it—his portion! Even 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 →