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.
17 Have you not brought this on yourself, when He led you in the way?