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^(A) by birth?
    Why then has he become plunder?

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

¹⁸ Now why go to Egypt^(A)
    to drink water from the Nile^[a]?^(B)
And why go to Assyria^(C)
    to drink water from the Euphrates?^(D)

“Have I been a desert to Israel
    or a land of great darkness?^(A)
Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam;
    we will come to you no more’?^(B)

³⁶ Why do you go about so much,
    changing^(A) your ways?
You will be disappointed by Egypt^(B)
    as you were by Assyria.