¹³ “My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken^(A) me,
    the spring of living water,^(B)
and have dug their own cisterns,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
¹⁴ Is Israel a servant, a slave^(C) by birth?
    Why then has he become plunder?
¹⁵ Lions^(D) have roared;
    they have growled at him.
They have laid waste^(E) his land;
    his towns are burned^(F) and deserted.^(G)
16 Also, the men of Memphis^(H) and Tahpanhes^(I)
    have cracked your skull.
¹⁷ Have you not brought this on yourselves^(J)
    by forsaking^(K) the Lord your God
    when he led you in the way?
¹⁸ Now why go to Egypt^(L)
    to drink water from the Nile^[a]?^(M)
And why go to Assyria^(N)
    to drink water from the Euphrates?^(O)
19 Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding^(P) will rebuke^(Q) you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter^(R) it is for you
when you forsake^(S) the Lord your God
    and have no awe^(T) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

²⁰ “Long ago you broke off your yoke^(U)
    and tore off your bonds;^(V)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’^(W)
Indeed, on every high hill^(X)
    and under every spreading tree^(Y)
    you lay down as a prostitute.^(Z)