16 Also the children of Noph and Tahpanes have broken the crown of your head.
17 Have you not brought this unto yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
18 And now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you,
20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and you said, I will not
21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a wild vine unto me?
22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,