7. Yet I brought you into a fertile land, to eat of its fruit and goodness. When you came, you defiled My land. You made My heritage an abomination.
8. The kohanim did not ask, ‘Where is Adonai?’ The Torah experts did not know Me. The shepherds rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and went after unprofitable things.
9. Therefore I will plead with you again!” It is a declaration of Adonai. “I will contend with your children’s children.
10. Cross to the coasts of Kittim and see! Send to Kedar, and observe carefully. See if there has been anything like this.
11. Has a nation changed its gods— even though they are not gods? Yet My people have exchanged their glory for worthless things.
12. Be appalled at this, O heavens! Be utterly horrified and dumbfounded.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
13. “My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me —the spring of living water— and they dug their own cisterns— cracked cisterns that hold no water.
14. Is Israel a servant—a slave by birth? Then why has he become plunder?
15. Young lions have roared at him they have roared loudly. They made his land a waste— his cities are in ruins and uninhabited.