Jeremiah 2:1–13

• A Jeremiah 2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
  • B Jeremiah 2:6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
    • C Jeremiah 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof;
    • C' Jeremiah 2:7 but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
  • B' Jeremiah 2:8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal,
• A' Jeremiah 2:8 and walked after things that do not profit. Jeremiah 2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, — saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

Oracle 3

Jeremiah 2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

Jeremiah 2:11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Jeremiah 2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, — saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils;

• a they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters,
  • b and hewed them out cisterns,
  • b' broken cisterns,
• a' that can hold no water.