Jeremiah 2:12-14

Easy-to-Read Version

¹² “Skies, be shocked at what happened!
    Shake with great fear!”
    This message is from the Lord.
¹³ “My people have done two evil things.
    They turned away from me,
    and they dug their own water cisterns.^[a]
I am the source of living water;
    those cisterns are broken and cannot hold water.

¹⁴ “Israel is not a slave, is he?
    He was not born a slave, was he?
    Then why did the enemy carry him away as a captive?