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Jeremiah 2:10-17 Webster Bible Translation (WBT)

10. For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there is such a thing.

11. Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet 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 the LORD.

13. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

14. Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he laid waste?

15. The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

16. Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

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

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