11 Has a nation exchanged gods? And they are not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.
12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and shudder; be utterly desolate,” declares Yahweh.
13 “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the source of living water, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.
14 Is Israel a slave? Or a slave born in a house? Why has he become plunder?
15 The young lions have roared against him, they have raised their voices. And they have made his land as horror; his cities are destroyed, without an inhabitant.
16 Moreover, people of Memphis and Tahpanhes will shave your skull.
17 Did you not do this to yourself, by forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way?