17 Have you not brought this on yourselfz

by abandoning the Lord your God

while he was leading you along the way?

18 Now what will you gain

by traveling along the way to Egyptaa

to drink the water of the Nile?F

What will you gain

by traveling along the way to Assyriaab

to drink the water of the Euphrates?ac

19 Your own evil will discipline you;ad

your own apostasies will reprimand you.

RecognizeG how evil and bitterae it is

for you to abandon the Lord your God

and to have no fear of me.

This is the declaration

of the Lord God of Armies.