Thematic Bible: Prone to backsliding
Thematic Bible
Jews, the » National character of » Prone to backsliding
Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.
Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit. Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord. For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.