Jeremiah 2:13-15

New Catholic Bible

¹³ For my people are guilty of two evils:
    they have forsaken me,
    the fountain of living water,
and they have dug cisterns for themselves,
    cracked cisterns that hold no water.
¹⁴ Is Israel a slave?
    Was he born to be a servant?
    Why then has he become plunder?
¹⁵ His enemies roar loudly at him like lions;^[a]
    they have made his country a wasteland;
    his cities are burned to the ground and deserted.