rsv Jeremiah:2:5-13
rsv@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
rsv@Jeremiah:2:6 @ They did not say, `Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?'
rsv@Jeremiah:2:7 @ And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests did not say, `Where is the LORD?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Ba'al, and went after things that do not profit.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:9 @ "Therefore I still contend with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children I will contend.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:10 @ For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:11 @ Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:12 @ Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, says the LORD,
rsv@Jeremiah:2:13 @ for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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