^{5 Ref} Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,

^{6 Ref} And have not said, Where `is' Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land -- none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?'

^{7 Ref} Yea, I bring you in to a land of fruitful fields, To eat its fruit and its goodness, And ye come in and defile My land, And Mine inheritance have made an abomination.

^{8 Ref} The 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.

^{9 Ref} Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.

^{10 Ref} For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there hath been like this:

^{11 Ref} Hath a nation changed gods? (And they `are' no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

^{12 Ref} Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

^{13 Ref} For 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.