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?
18. And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt? to drink the waters of the Nile? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria? to drink the waters of the river Eufrates?
19. Thine own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know therefore and see how evil and bitter it is, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God and that my fear is lacking in thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.