Jeremiah 2:12-14

Good News Translation

¹² And so I command the sky to shake with horror,
    to be amazed and astonished,
¹³     for my people have committed two sins:
they have turned away from me,
    the spring of fresh water,
and they have dug cisterns,
    cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all.

¹⁴ “Israel is not a slave;
    he was not born into slavery.
    Why then do his enemies hunt him down?