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

to drink the waters of ^wthe Nile?¹

^xOr what do you gain by going to Assyria

to drink the waters of ^ythe Euphrates?²

23  ^kHow can you say, ‘I am not unclean,

I have not gone after the Baals’?

Look at your way ^lin the valley;

know what you have done—

a restless young camel running here and there,

36  ^dHow much you go about,

changing your way!

You shall be ^eput to shame by Egypt

as you were put to shame by Assyria.