Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils against me: They have abandoned the springs of living waters, 1 and they have dug out cisterns for themselves, 1 broken cisterns that cannot hold water. 1
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12Shudder, heavens, because of this! Be shocked and horrified—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1
14Is Israel a slave? Was he born in his master's home? So why has he become plunder? 1
Cross References
Judges 10:13Yet you abandoned me again and worshiped other gods. Therefore, I will not keep adding to the times I deliver you.
2 Kings 22:17Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, so that they might provoke me to anger with all the deeds they have committed—therefore my anger has been kindled against this place, and it will not be extinguished.'”
Psalms 81:11But my people did not listen to my words; 1 Israel did not obey me. 1
Psalms 146:3Do not put your trust in princes 1 or in mankind, in whom there is no salvation. 1
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the deeds that are done under the sun, and look, they all amount to vapor and chasing the wind. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:21For there might be someone who works with wisdom, with knowledge, and skill, but he will leave everything he has to a man who has not made any of it. This also is vapor and a great tragedy.
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 →