12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this; and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, said the Lord.
13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14 Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn slave? Why has he been given over as a prey?
15 The young lions roared upon him and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are deserted without inhabitant.
16 Even the sons of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
17 Could this not have come upon you peradventure because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt? to drink the waters of the Nile? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria? to drink the waters of the river Eufrates?