24:002:009 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
24:002:010 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto
Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a
thing.
24:002:011 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but
my people have changed their glory for that which doth not
profit.
24:002:012 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
24:002:013 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
24:002:014 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he
spoiled?
24:002:015 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his
land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
24:002:016 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown
of thy head.
24:002:017 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast
forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
24:002:018 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?