9. “Therefore I still contend with you,declares the Lord,and with your children’s children I will contend.
10. For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see,or send to Kedar and examine with care;see if there has been such a thing.
11. Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods?But my people have changed their gloryfor that which does not profit.
12. Be appalled, O heavens, at this;be shocked, be utterly desolate,declares the Lord,
13. for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me,the fountain of living waters,and hewed out cisterns for themselves,broken cisterns that can hold no water.
14. “Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant?Why then has he become a prey?
15. The lions have roared against him;they have roared loudly.They have made his land a waste;his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.