⁴ Hear the word of the Lord, you descendants of Jacob,
    all you clans of Israel.

¹¹ Has a nation ever changed its gods?
    (Yet they are not gods^(A) at all.)
But my people have exchanged their glorious^(B) 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^(C) me,
    the spring of living water,^(D)
and have dug their own cisterns,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

²⁰ “Long ago you broke off your yoke^(A)
    and tore off your bonds;^(B)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’^(C)
Indeed, on every high hill^(D)
    and under every spreading tree^(E)
    you lay down as a prostitute.^(F)

²¹ I had planted^(A) you like a choice vine^(B)
    of sound and reliable stock.
How then did you turn against me
    into a corrupt,^(C) wild vine?
²² Although you wash^(D) yourself with soap^(E)
    and use an abundance of cleansing powder,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.^(F)

²⁶ “As a thief is disgraced^(A) when he is caught,
    so the people of Israel are disgraced—
they, their kings and their officials,
    their priests^(B) and their prophets.^(C)
27 They say to wood,^(D) ‘You are my father,’
    and to stone,^(E) ‘You gave me birth.’
They have turned their backs^(F) to me
    and not their faces;^(G)
yet when they are in trouble,^(H) they say,
    ‘Come and save^(I) us!’
²⁸ Where then are the gods^(J) you made for yourselves?
    Let them come if they can save you
    when you are in trouble!^(K)
For you, Judah, have as many gods
    as you have towns.^(L)