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13 For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water.

14 Is Israel a servant? Is he a homeborn slave? Why has he become a captive and a prey?

15 The young lions have roared over him and made their voices heard. And they have made his land a waste; his cities are burned ruins without inhabitant.

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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.
14 Is Israel a servant, a slave(C) by birth?
    Why then has he become plunder?
15 Lions(D) have roared;
    they have growled at him.
They have laid waste(E) his land;
    his towns are burned(F) and deserted.(G)

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