^{5 Ref} Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

^{6 Ref} Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

^{7 Ref} And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

^{8 Ref} The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

^{9 Ref} Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

^{10 Ref} For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

^{11 Ref} Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

^{12 Ref} Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

^{13 Ref} 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.