Jeremiah 2:13

You, my people, have done two evil things: You have rejected me, the one who is like [MET] a fountain where you can obtain fresh water, and you are worshiping gods that are like [MET] pits in the ground that are cracked and which are not able to hold any water.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

12It is as though everything in the sky is surprised and dismayed/appalled about what you have done; it is as though they tremble because they are very horrified.

14You Israeli people, you were certainly not [RHQ] slaves when you were born; you were captured by your enemies.

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Cross References

Judges 10:13But now you have abandoned me again, and you have been worshiping other gods. So I will not rescue you again.

2 Kings 22:17I will do that because they have abandoned me, and they burn incense to honor other gods. They have caused me to become very angry by worshiping all the idols that they have made (OR, by all the wicked things that they have done), and my anger is like [MET] a fire that will not be put out.”

Psalms 81:11But my people would not listen to me [SYN]; they would not obey me.

Psalms 146:3You people, do not trust in your leaders; do not trust humans because they cannot save/rescue you from your difficulties/problems.

Ecclesiastes 1:14It seems that nothing that happens on the earth really enables us to do anything useful. It is like [MET] chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:21Some people work wisely and skillfully, using the things that they have learned. But when they die, they leave everything, and someone who has not worked hard acquires those things. And that also seemed to be senseless and caused me to be discouraged.

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 →

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