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11 Has a nation ever changed gods
    when they aren’t even gods?
But my people have exchanged their glory
    for that which does not profit.
12 Heavens, be appalled at this,
    be shocked, be utterly[a] devastated,”
        declares the Lord.
13 “Indeed, my people have committed two evils:
    they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water,[b]
and they have dug cisterns for themselves,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:12 Lit. very
  2. Jeremiah 2:13 I.e. fresh water