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12 Sky above, be shocked over this.
    Tremble with horror,”
    announces the Lord.
13 “My people have sinned twice.
They have deserted me,
    even though I am the spring of water that gives life.
And they have dug their own wells.
    But those wells are broken.
    They can’t hold any water.
14 Are you people of Israel servants?
    You were not born as slaves, were you?
    Then why have you been carried off like stolen goods?

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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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