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Jeremiah looks over a damaged settlement as families depart along the road.
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Jeremiah 2:14-19

A bitter consequence

The Fountain and the Broken Cisterns · Jeremiah 2

Story guide: Plunder and foreign entanglements reveal the bitter cost of forsaking God.

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14Is Israel a servant, or one born into slavery? Why then has he become plunder?

15Young lions roar against him; their cries ring out. They have made his land desolate; his cities are burned, with no one living there.

16Even the people of Noph and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.

17Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking Yahweh your God while he was leading you along the way?

18Now why turn to Egypt for help—to drink the waters of Shihor? Why turn to Assyria for help—to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

19Your evil will discipline you, and your apostasies will reprove you. So understand and see how evil and bitter it is to forsake Yahweh your God and have no fear of me, declares the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

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