Septuagint: Greek Old Testament (Vatican Codex Edition)

Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

9. Therefore I will yet plead with you, and with your children's children will I plead.

10. For pass over to the isles of Chittim, and see, and send to Kedar, and observe diligently, and see if such things have happened:

11. If nations have changed their gods, and these are not gods; but my people have changed their glory, from which they shall not profit.

12. The heaven was astonished at this, and shuddered exceedingly, saith the Lord.

13. For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have dug for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.

14. Is Israel a servant, or is he homeborn? Why has he become a spoil?

15. Lions roared against him, and gave their voice, and they set his land to be a desert, and his cities were pulled down, to be without inhabitant.

16. And the sons of Memphis and Taphnas Original: Τάφνας. Traditionally Tahpanhes. knew thee, and mocked thee.

17. Did not thy forsaking me do these things to thee? saith the Lord thy God.

18. And now what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Geon? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the rivers?

19. Thy apostasy shall educate thee, and thy wickedness shall convict thee; and know and see that it is a bitter thing for thee to forsake me, saith the Lord thy God; and I took no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God.

20. For from of old thou didst break thy yoke, and burst thy bonds, and saidst, I will not serve thee, but I will go upon every high mountain, and under every shady tree, there I will be poured out in my journey.

21. Yet I planted thee a fruitful vine, all true; how art thou turned into bitterness, O strange vine?

22. Though thou shouldst wash thyself with niter Original: νίτρῳ. A naturally occurring soda used for cleansing., and multiply for thyself the soap Original: ποίαν. Refers to a cleansing herb or alkali., thou art stained in thy iniquities before me, saith the Lord.

23. How canst thou say, I am not defiled, and I have not gone after Baal? Look at thy ways in the valley, and know what thou hast done; her voice cried out at evening.

24. She spread her ways toward the water of the desert, in the desires of her soul she was carried by the spirit, she was given up; who shall turn her back? All who seek her shall not weary; in her humiliation they shall find her.

25. Turn away thy foot from a rough way, and thy throat from thirst; but she said, I will be strong, for she loved foreigners, and went after them.