5. thus hath the Lord said, What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?
6. Neither did they say, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through and where no man dwelt?
7. And I brought you into a plentiful country to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
8. The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those that handled the law did not know me; the pastors also rebelled against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.
9. Therefore I will yet enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children’s children.
10. For pass over the isles of Chittim and see; and send unto Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing.
11. Has a nation changed their gods? Even though they are not gods. But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
12. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this; and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, said the Lord.
13. For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14. Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn slave? Why has he been given over as a prey?
15. The young lions roared upon him and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are deserted without inhabitant.
16. Even the sons of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
17. Could this not have come upon you peradventure because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?