Jeremiah 2:9-19

9Therefore, I will bring a case against you again. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will bring a case against your children’s children.

10Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look. Send someone to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

11Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods!) Yet my people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

12Be appalled at this, heavens; be shocked and utterly desolated! This is the Lord’s declaration.

13For my people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves — cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.

14Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why else has he become a prey?

15The young lions have roared at him; they have roared loudly. They have laid waste his land. His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.

16The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have also broken your skull.

17Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God while he was leading you along the way?

18Now what will you gain by traveling along the way to Egypt to drink the water of the Nile? What will you gain by traveling along the way to Assyria to drink the water of the Euphrates?

19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognize how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.