8. The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
9. Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children's children will I plead.
10. For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there hath been such a thing.
11. Hath a nation changed their gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
12. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.
13. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14. Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he become a prey?
15. The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled: and they have made his land waste; his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
16. The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.
17. Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that 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 to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
19. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.