7. I brought you into a plentiful land,to eat its fruit and its goodness;but when you entered, you defiled my land,and made my heritage an abomination.
8. The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is the Lord?’and those who handle the law didn’t know me.The rulers also transgressed against me,and the prophets prophesied by Baal,and followed things that do not profit.
9. “Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the Lord,“and I will contend with your children’s children.
10. For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see;and send to Kedar, and consider diligently;and see if there has been such a thing.
11. Has a nation changed its gods,which really are no gods?But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
12. “Be astonished, you heavens, at this,and be horribly afraid.Be very desolate,” says the Lord.
13. “For my people have committed two evils:they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters,and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14. Is Israel a slave?Is he born into slavery?Why has he become a captive?
15. The young lions have roared at him, and yelled.They have made his land waste.His cities are burnt up, without inhabitant.
16. The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
17. “Haven’t you brought this on yourself,in that you have forsaken the Lord your God, when he led you by the way?
18. Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor?Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?