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10 For go to the isles of Chettim and see; and send to Kedar and make strict inquiry; and see if such things have ever happened:
11 have nations changed their Gods, though they are no Gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which will not profit them.
12 At this the heaven was astonished and shocked exceedingly, saith the Lord.
13 Because my people did two things which are both evil: they forsook me, the fountain of living water; and hewed out for themselves broken cisterns which cannot hold water.
14 Is Israel a slave or a home born servant? Why was he for a prey?
15 Against him lions roared and uttered their voice: they have made his land a desert and his cities are demolished so as to be uninhabitable.
16 Even the sons of Memphis and Taphnas have known and derided thee.
17 Hath not thy forsaking me, saith the Lord thy God, brought these things upon thee?
18 Now therefore what hast thou to do with the way to Egypt? Is it to drink the water of Geon? Or what hast thou to do in the way to the Assyrians? Is it to drink the water of rivers?
19 Let this apostacy of thine correct thee. And thy wickedness work conviction in thee. And know and see how bitter a thing it is to forsake me, saith the Lord thy God.
20 Further, I have no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God, because of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands, and said, I will not serve thee; but I will go up every high mount: and under every shady tree, I will there indulge my wantonness.
21 I indeed planted thee an entirely good and fruitful vine: how art thou, degenerate vine, turned to bitterness?
22 Though thou wash thyself with nitre and use much soap: thou art stained by thine iniquities in my sight, saith the Lord.
23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, nor have I gone after Baal? View thy ways in the grave yard, and recollect what thou hast done. In the evening her voice raised the mournful cry.
24 She enlarged her ways to the waters of a desert: by the desires of her soul she was transported into raptures. She is delivered up: who will bring her back? None who seek her will weary themselves. In her humiliation they shall find her.
25 Turn thy foot from a rugged way, and thy throat from thirst. But she said, I will act like one come to maturity. Because she loved strangers, therefore after them she did go.
26 As a thief when taken, is ashamed; so shall the children of Israel be put to shame. They and their kings and their chiefs and their priests and their prophets,
27 said to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast begotten me. And turned their backs to me and not their faces: yet in the time of their troubles they will say, Arise and save us.
28 Where now are thy gods which thou hast made for thyself? Will they arise and save in the time of thy trouble? Since according to the number of thy cities were thy gods Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they burned incense to Baal;