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Jeremiah 2:13

Jeremiah chapter 2 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.

v.13This passage

v.14Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 4:22

    For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 18:14

    Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

  • Psalms 81:11

    But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.

  • Jeremiah 2:11

    Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

  • Psalms 115:4

    Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.

  • Isaiah 44:9

    They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.