7. “I brought you into a good land, a land filled with many good things. I did this so that you could eat the fruit and crops that grow there. But you only made my land ‘dirty.’ I gave that land to you, but you made it a bad place.
8. “The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ The people who know the law did not want to know me. The leaders of the people of Israel turned against me. The prophets spoke in the name of the false god Baal. They worshiped worthless idols.”
9. The Lord says, “So now I will accuse you again, and I will also accuse your grandchildren.
10. Go across the sea to the Islands of Kittim. Send someone to the land of Kedar. Look very carefully. See if anyone has ever done anything like this.
11. Has any nation ever stopped worshiping their old gods so that they could worship new gods? No! And their gods are not really gods at all! But my people stopped worshiping their glorious God and started worshiping idols that are worth nothing.
12. “Skies, be shocked at what happened! Shake with great fear!” This message is from the Lord.
13. “My people have done two evil things. They turned away from me, and they dug their own water cisterns. I am the source of living water; those cisterns are broken and cannot hold water.
14. “Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born a slave, was he? Then why did the enemy carry him away as a captive?
15. Like a lion the enemy has roared at Israel. They have destroyed your land. Your cities have been burned, and no one is left in them.
16. People from Memphis and Tahpanhes have smashed the top of your head.