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Jeremiah 2:12-15 English Standard Version (ESV)

12. Be appalled, O heavens, at this;be shocked, be utterly desolate,declares the Lord,

13. for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me,the fountain of living waters,and hewed out cisterns for themselves,broken cisterns that can hold no water.

14. “Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant?Why then has he become a prey?

15. The lions have roared against him;they have roared loudly.They have made his land a waste;his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.