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12 Be appalled at this, heavens;(A)
be shocked and utterly desolated!
This is the Lord’s declaration.

13 For my people have committed a double evil:
They have abandoned me,(B)
the fountain of living water,(C)
and dug cisterns for themselves – 
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.(D)

Consequences of Apostasy

14 Is Israel a slave?
Was he born into slavery?[a]
Why else has he become a prey?

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Footnotes

  1. 2:14 Lit born of a house