Jeremiah 2:4–13

⁴Hear the word of Jehovah, house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel. ⁵Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain? ⁶And they said not, Where is Jehovah, that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and of pits, in a land of drought and of the shadow of death, in a land that no one passeth through, and where no man dwelleth? ⁷And I brought you into a fruitful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof; and ye entered and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. ⁸The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handled the law knew me not; and the shepherds transgressed against me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

⁹Therefore will I yet plead with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children will I plead. ¹⁰For pass over to the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there have been such a thing. ¹¹Hath a nation changed its gods? and they are no gods; —but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. ¹²Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, and shudder; be amazed very much, saith Jehovah. ¹³For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns that hold no water.