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Jeremiah 2:12

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“Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.

Context

9“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.
10For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.
11Has 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.
14Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?
15The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

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