Jeremiah 2:1-2,12-13 NRSVue

¹The word of the Lord came to me, saying: ²Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord:

I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

¹²Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked; be utterly desolate, says the Lord, ¹³for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.

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