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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?
15 Like a lion the enemy has roared at Israel.
    They have destroyed your[b] land.
Your cities have been burned,
    and no one is left in them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:13 they dug … cisterns That is, they made false gods.
  2. Jeremiah 2:15 your Hebrew, “his,” referring to “Israel,” which here means his people, as in verse 16.

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