11. Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods! )Yet My people have exchanged their Gloryfor useless idols.
12. Be horrified at this, heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled.This is the Lord’s declaration.
13. For My people have committed a double evil:They have abandoned Me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves,cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
14. Is Israel a slave?Was he born into slavery? Why else has he become a prey?
15. The young lions have roared at him; they have roared loudly.They have laid waste his land. His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
16. The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have also broken your skull.