9. ‘Therefore I bring charges against you again,’declares the Lord.‘And I will bring charges against your children’s children.
10. Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and look,send to Kedar and observe closely;see if there has ever been anything like this:
11. has a nation ever changed its gods?(Yet they are not gods at all.)But my people have exchanged their glorious Godfor worthless idols.
12. Be appalled at this, you heavens,and shudder with great horror,’declares the Lord.
13. ‘My people have committed two sins:They have forsaken me,the spring of living water,and have dug their own cisterns,broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
14. Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth?Why then has he become plunder?
15. Lions have roared;they have growled at him.They have laid waste his land;his towns are burned and deserted.
16. Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanheshave cracked your skull.
17. Have you not brought this on yourselvesby forsaking the Lord your Godwhen he led you in the way?
18. Now why go to Egyptto drink water from the Nile?And why go to Assyriato drink water from the Euphrates?