11 Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols. 12 Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD. 13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Jeremiah 2:11–13
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