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Jeremiah 2:11

World English Bible

Has a nation changed its gods,
which really are no gods?
But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

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Jeremiah 2:11 in other translations

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

Jeremiah 2:11 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 2:11 in context

  1. 9“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh,
    “and I will contend with your children’s children.
  2. 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.
  3. 11Has a nation changed its gods,
    which really are no gods?
    But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
  4. 12“Be astonished, you heavens, at this
    and be horribly afraid.
    Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
  5. 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.