9. Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
10. For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there hath been such a thing.
11. Hath a nation changed their gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
12. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
13. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14. Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he become a prey?
15. The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled: and they have made his land waste; his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.