14 Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn slave? Why has he been given over as a prey?
15 The young lions roared upon him and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are deserted without inhabitant.
16 Even the sons of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
17 Could this not have come upon you peradventure because 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 of Egypt? to drink the waters of the Nile? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria? to drink the waters of the river Eufrates?
19 Thine own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know therefore and see how evil and bitter it is, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God and that my fear is lacking in thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.
20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke and burst thy bands; and thou didst say, I will not serve sin. With all this, upon every high hill and under every green tree thou dost wander, playing the harlot.