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 are guilty of two evils:
        They have abandoned Me, the spring of living waters;
    And instead, they have settled for dead and stagnant water
        from cracked, leaky cisterns of their own making.

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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 «Porque dos males ha hecho Mi pueblo:
Me han abandonado a Mí,
Fuente de aguas vivas(A),
Y han cavado[a] para sí cisternas,
Cisternas agrietadas que no retienen el agua(B).

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremías 2:13 Lit. para cavar.