10 Cross to the coast of Cyprus and see,send to Kedar and carefully inquire:Where has anything like this been done?
11 Does any other nation change its gods?—even though they are not gods at all!But my people have changed their gloryfor useless things.
12 Be horrified at this, heavens;shudder, be appalled—oracle of the Lord.
13 Two evils my people have done:they have forsaken me, the source of living waters;They have dug themselves cisterns,broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
14 Is Israel a slave, a house-born servant?Why then has he become plunder?
15 Against him lions roar,they raise their voices.They have turned his land into a waste;his cities are charred ruins, without an inhabitant.
16 Yes, the people of Memphis and Tahpanhesshave the crown of your head.