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11 Has a nation changed its gods,
    which really are no gods?
    But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
12 “Be astonished, you heavens, at this
    and be horribly afraid.
    Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
13 “For my people have committed two evils:
    they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters,
    and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

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11 Has a nation ever changed its gods?
    (Yet they are not gods(A) at all.)
But my people have exchanged their glorious(B) God
    for worthless idols.
12 Be appalled at this, you heavens,
    and shudder with great horror,”
declares the Lord.
13 “My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken(C) me,
    the spring of living water,(D)
and have dug their own cisterns,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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