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Jeremiah 2:11-17 American Standard Version (ASV)

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.

16. The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.

17. Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?

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