Through a land of hardship and distress,^(G)
    of lions^(H) and lionesses,
    of adders and darting snakes,^(I)
the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’^(J) backs,
    their treasures^(K) on the humps of camels,
to that unprofitable nation,

⁸ The priests did not ask,
    ‘Where is the Lord?’
Those who deal with the law did not know me;^(A)
    the leaders^(B) rebelled against me.
The prophets prophesied by Baal,^(C)
    following worthless idols.^(D)

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.