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.
16. The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.
17. Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
18. And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?