Jeremiah 2:13-15

Revised Standard Version

¹³for my people have committed two evils:
    they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living waters,
    and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns,
    that can hold no water.

¹⁴“Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant?
    Why then has he become a prey?
¹⁵The lions have roared against him,
    they have roared loudly.
They have made his land a waste;
    his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

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