Jeremiah 2:13-15

International Standard Version

¹³ “Indeed, my people have committed two evils:
    they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water,^[a]
and they have dug cisterns for themselves,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”

¹⁴ “Is Israel a slave, or was he born a servant?^[b]
    Why then has he become plunder?
¹⁵ Young lions roar at him, they cry out loudly.
    They have made his land into a wasteland,
and his cities are destroyed
    so they are without inhabitants.