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⁴Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

⁵thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

⁶Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 none passed through, and where no man lived?

⁷I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

⁸The priests didn`t say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the law didn`t know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

⁹Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with your children`s children will I contend.

¹⁰For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.

¹¹Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

¹²Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says Yahweh.

¹³For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.