¹³ for my people have committed two evils:
^(A)they have forsaken ^(B)me,
    the fountain of ^(C)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
    broken cisterns that can hold no water.

^17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when ^(B)he led you in the way?

^18 (A)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
    to drink the waters of ^(B)the Nile?
^(C)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
    to drink the waters of ^(D)the Euphrates?^[a]

³¹ And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
    or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
    we will come no more to you’?

^36 (A)How much you go about,
    changing your way!
You shall be ^(B)put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.