¹⁴ Is Israel a slave? Or a slave born in a house?^[a]
    Why has he become plunder?
¹⁵ The young lions have roared against him,
    they have raised^[b] their voices.^[c]
And they have made his land as horror;
    his cities are destroyed, without^[d] an inhabitant.
¹⁶ Moreover, people of Memphis and Tahpanhes
    will shave^[e] your skull.^[f]
17 Did you not do this to yourself,
    by forsaking Yahweh, your God,
    at the time of your leading in the way?
¹⁸ And now why do you go^[g] the way of Egypt
    to drink the waters of the Shihor?
And why do you go^[h] the way of Assyria
    to drink the waters of the Euphrates?^[i]
19 Your wickedness will chastise you,
    and your apostasies will reprove you.
Therefore know and see that it is evil and bitter,
    your forsaking of Yahweh, your God,
and fear of me is not in you,”
    declares^[j] the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.