8The priests have not said, `Where [is] Jehovah?` And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.
9Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons` sons I plead.
10For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there hath been like this:
11Hath a nation changed gods? (And they [are] no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.
12Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Jehovah.
13For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters.
14A servant [is] Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?
