10 Cross to the coasts of Kittim and see! Send to Kedar, and observe carefully. See if there has been anything like this.
11 Has a nation changed its gods— even though they are not gods? Yet My people have exchanged their glory for worthless things.
12 Be appalled at this, O heavens! Be utterly horrified and dumbfounded.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
13 “My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me —the spring of living water— and they dug their own cisterns— cracked cisterns that hold no water.
14 Is Israel a servant—a slave by birth? Then why has he become plunder?
15 Young lions have roared at him they have roared loudly. They made his land a waste— his cities are in ruins and uninhabited.
16 Even the sons of Noph and Tahpanhes have grazed on the crown of your head.