9. Therefore, I will bring my case against you,”says the lord.“I will even bring charges against your children’s childrenin the years to come.
10. “Go west and look in the land of Cyprus;go east and search through the land of Kedar.Has anyone ever heard of anythingas strange as this?
11. Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones,even though they are not gods at all?Yet my people have exchanged their glorious Godfor worthless idols!
12. The heavens are shocked at such a thingand shrink back in horror and dismay,”says the lord.
13. “For my people have done two evil things:They have abandoned me—the fountain of living water.And they have dug for themselves cracked cisternsthat can hold no water at all!