13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me [a]the fountain of living waters, to dig them pits, even broken pits that can hold no water.

14 Is Israel a [b]servant, or is he born in the house? why then is he spoiled?

15 The [c]Lions roared upon him and yelled, and they have made his land waste: his cities are burnt without [d]an inhabitant.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:13 Signifying, that when men forsake God’s word, which is the fountain of life, they reject God himself, and so fall to their own inventions, and vain confidence, and procure to themselves destruction, Jonah 2:8; Zech. 10:2.
  2. Jeremiah 2:14 Have I ordered them like servants and not like dearly beloved children? Exod. 4:22, therefore it is their fault only, if the enemy spoil them.
  3. Jeremiah 2:15 The Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians.
  4. Jeremiah 2:15 Not one shall be left to dwell there.

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