12. Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,” declares the Lord.
13. “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
14. Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?
15. Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.
16. Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skull.
17. Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the Lord your God when he led you in the way?
18. Now why go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile ? And why go to Assyria to drink water from the Euphrates?