Jeremiah 2:13-16 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

13. For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the Fountain of living water, and they have dug for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that are unable to hold water.

14. Is Israel a servant, or one born into slavery? Then why has he become a prey?

15. The lions have roared over him, and they have uttered their voice. They have set his land in solitude; his cities have been burned up, and there is no one who lives in them.

16. Likewise, the sons of Memphis and of Tahpanhes have defiled you, even to the top of the head.

Jeremiah 2