Jeremiah 2:13-15

The Voice

¹³    My people are guilty of two evils:
        They have abandoned Me, the spring of living waters;
    And instead, they have settled for dead and stagnant water
        from cracked, leaky cisterns of their own making.

¹⁴Is Israel some common slave, born into bondage?
Why has he been carted off as if he were the spoil of battle?
¹⁵The nations have circled him like hungry young lions,
roaring and growling their war cries.
They have left Israel a wasteland—
the cities destroyed and the people scattered.