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11 Has a nation exchanged gods? And they are not gods!
    But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.
12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and shudder;
    be utterly desolate,” declares[a] Yahweh.
13 “For my people have committed two evils:
    they have forsaken me, the source[b] of living water,
    to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:12 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 2:13 Or “fountain”