13 “For My people have committed two evils:
They have abandoned Me,
The (A)fountain of living waters,
To carve out for themselves (B)cisterns,
Broken cisterns
That do not hold water.

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13 “My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken(A) me,
    the spring of living water,(B)
and have dug their own cisterns,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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13 Lord, the (A)hope of Israel,
All who (B)abandon You will be put to shame.
Those who turn [a]away on earth will be (C)written down,
Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, that is the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:13 Lit away from Me

13 Lord, you are the hope(A) of Israel;
    all who forsake(B) you will be put to shame.
Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust(C)
    because they have forsaken the Lord,
    the spring of living water.(D)

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