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Jeremiah 2:13
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11 aHas a nation changed its gods,
Which are bnot gods?
cBut My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit. 
12 Be astonished, O heavens, at this,
And be horribly afraid;
Be very desolate,” says the Lord.
13 “For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the afountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water. 
14 “Is Israel aa servant?
Is he a homeborn slave?
Why is he plundered? 
15 aThe young lions roared at him, and growled;
They made his land waste;
His cities are burned, without inhabitant. 
16 Also the people of1 Noph and aTahpanhes
Have1 broken the crown of your head. 
17 aHave you not brought this on yourself,
In that you have forsaken the Lord your God
When bHe led you in the way? 
18 And now why take athe road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of1 bSihor?
Or why take the road to cAssyria,
To drink the waters of the River? 
19 Your own wickedness will acorrect you,
And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the Lord your God,
And the1 fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts. 
20 “For of old I have abroken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And byou said, ‘I will not transgress,’
When con every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, dplaying the harlot. 
21 Yet I had aplanted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into bthe degenerate plant of an alien vine? 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 2:13

two evils—not merely one evil, like the idolaters who know no better; besides simple idolatry, My people add the sin of forsaking the true God whom they have known; the heathen, though having the sin of idolatry, are free from the further sin of changing the true God for idols (Jeremiah 2:11).

forsaken me—The Hebrew collocation brings out the only living God into more prominent contrast with idol nonentities. "Me they have forsaken, the Fountain," etc. (Jeremiah 17:13; Psalms 36:9; John 4:14).

broken cisterns—tanks for rain water, common in the East, where wells are scarce. The tanks not only cannot give forth an ever-flowing fresh supply as fountains can, but cannot even retain the water poured into them; the stonework within being broken, the earth drinks up the collected water. So, in general, all earthly, compared with heavenly, means of satisfying man's highest wants (Isaiah 55:1-2; compare Luke 12:33).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 2:13:

Job 6:15
Psalms 106:15
Isaiah 35:7
Jeremiah 2:18
Jeremiah 5:19
Jeremiah 17:13
Jeremiah 18:14
Jonah 2:8
Zephaniah 1:6
Haggai 1:6
Haggai 1:10

 

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