12. Be astonished at this, O heavens, and be utterly desolate, O gates of heaven, says the Lord.
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.
17. Has this not been done to you because you abandoned the Lord your God, in that time when he was leading you by the way?
18. And now what do you want from the way of Egypt, but to drink their turbid water? And what do you want from the way of the Assyrians, but to drink the water of their river?