18  ^wAnd now what do you gain by going to Egypt

to drink the waters of the Nile?¹

Or what do you gain by going to Assyria

to drink the waters of the Euphrates?²

23  How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,

I have not gone after the Baals’?

Look at your way in the valley;

know what you have done—

a restless young camel running here and there,

36  How much you go about,

changing your way!

You shall be put to shame ^tby Egypt

as you were put to shame ^uby Assyria.