¹⁹ Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding^(A) will rebuke^(B) you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter^(C) it is for you
when you forsake^(D) the Lord your God
    and have no awe^(E) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

¹⁰ Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus^(A) and look,
    send to Kedar^[a](B) and observe closely;
    see if there has ever been anything like this:
¹¹ Has a nation ever changed its gods?
    (Yet they are not gods^(C) at all.)
But my people have exchanged their glorious^(D) God
    for worthless idols.
¹² Be appalled at this, you heavens,
    and shudder with great horror,”
declares the Lord.
¹³ “My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken^(E) me,
    the spring of living water,^(F)
and have dug their own cisterns,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

⁴ “I will stretch out my hand^(A) against Judah
    and against all who live in Jerusalem.
I will destroy every remnant of Baal worship in this place,^(B)
    the very names of the idolatrous priests^(C)—
⁵ those who bow down on the roofs
    to worship the starry host,^(D)
those who bow down and swear by the Lord
    and who also swear by Molek,^[a](E)

¹³ But it happened because of the sins of her prophets
    and the iniquities of her priests,^(A)
who shed within her
    the blood^(B) of the righteous.

¹⁴ Now they grope through the streets
    as if they were blind.^(C)
They are so defiled with blood^(D)
    that no one dares to touch their garments.

¹⁵ “Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them.
    “Away! Away! Don’t touch us!”
When they flee and wander^(E) about,
    people among the nations say,
    “They can stay here no longer.”^(F)