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12 Skies, be shocked at the things that have happened.
    Shake with great fear!” says the Lord.
13 “My people have done two sins.
They have turned away from me.
    And I am the spring of living water.
And they have dug their own wells.
    But they are broken wells that cannot hold water.
14 Have the people of Israel become slaves?
    Have they become like someone who was born a slave?
    Why was their wealth stolen?

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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(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?

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