Jeremiah 2:13-15

New American Standard Bible

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.

¹⁴ “Is Israel ^(C)a slave? Or is he a servant born in the home?
Why has he become plunder?
¹⁵ The young ^(D)lions have roared at him,
They have ^[a]roared loudly.
And they have ^(E)made his land a waste;
His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.