10 Go west across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus and see.Send someone east to Kedar and have them look carefully.See if such a thing as this has ever happened:
11 Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)?But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God,for a god that cannot help them at all!
12 Be amazed at this, O heavens!Be shocked and utterly dumbfounded,”says the Lord.
13 “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong:they have rejected me,the fountain of life-giving water,and they have dug cisterns for themselves,cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
14 “Israel is not a slave, is he?He was not born into slavery, was he?If not, why then is he being carried off?
15 Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him;they raise their voices in triumph.They have laid his land waste;his cities have been burned down and deserted.
16 Even the soldiers from Memphis and Tahpanheshave cracked your skulls, people of Israel.