13 for my people have committed two evils:
(A)they have forsaken (B)me,
    the fountain of (C)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
    broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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14 (A)“Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant?
    Why then has he become a prey?

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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when (B)he led you in the way?

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18 (A)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
    to drink the waters of (B)the Nile?
(C)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
    to drink the waters of (D)the Euphrates?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River

31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
    or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
    we will come no more to you’?

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36 (A)How much you go about,
    changing your way!
You shall be (B)put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.

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