Jeremiah 2:12
American Standard Translation
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9 Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children`s children will I contend.
10 For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there hath been such a thing.
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.
12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.
13 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.
14 Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?
15 The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.