Jeremiah 2:14
World English Bible
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11 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
12 Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says Yahweh.
13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring 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 on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
17 Haven`t you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?