Jeremiah 2:13-15

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹³ For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water.

¹⁴ Is Israel a servant? Is he a homeborn slave? Why has he become a captive and a prey?

¹⁵ The young lions have roared over him and made their voices heard. And they have made his land a waste; his cities are burned ruins without inhabitant.