13For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
14Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?
15The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
16Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.
17Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
18And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?
19The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
