7 And I brought you to the land of the orchard, to eat its fruit, and its good things. But you entered and defiled my land, and my inheritance you made a detestable thing.
8 The priests did not say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law did not know me, and the shepherds have rebelled against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went after things which do not profit.
9 Therefore I again bring a lawsuit against you,” declares Yahweh, “and with your children I bring a lawsuit.
10 For go over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, and send to Kedar and consider very closely, and see if there has been a thing like this:
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.