11. If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods,: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.
12. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.
13. For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14. Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become prey?
15. The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have made his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down and there is none to dwell in them.
16. The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have deflowered thee, even to the crown of the head.
17. Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way?
18. And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the river?