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 Tahpanheshave cracked your skull.