001:019 They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you, says Yahweh, to deliver you. 002:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 002:002 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 002:003 Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: all who devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says Yahweh. 002:004 Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: 002:005 thus 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? 002:006 Neither 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? 002:007 I 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. 002:008 The 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. 002:009 Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with your children's children will I contend. 002:010 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing. 002:011 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. 002:012 Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says Yahweh. 002:013 For 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. 002:014 Is Israel a servant? is he a native-born [slave]? why is he become a prey? 002:015 The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant. 002:016 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head. 002:017 Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way? 002:018 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?