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.
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.