## Shudder, heavens, because of this! Be shocked and horrified ##

The speaker is turning and talking to the heaven as if it were a person. (See:[[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-apostrophe]])

## abandoned the springs ##

AT: "abandoned me, their spring" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])

## by digging out cisterns for themselves ##

Idols are compared to broken cisterns. AT: by worshipping useless gods" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## cisterns ##

"deep hole for storing water."