²¹ A voice on the ^(A)bare heights is heard,
    ^(B)the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons
because they have perverted their way;
    they have forgotten the Lord their God.

^15 (A)But my people have forgotten me;
    they make offerings to ^(B)false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
    ^(C)in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
    ^(D)not the highway,

¹⁸ You were unmindful of ^(A)the Rock that bore^[a] you,
    and you ^(B)forgot the God who gave you birth.

²¹ They ^(A)forgot God, their Saviour,
    who had done great things in Egypt,

¹⁰ For ^(A)you have forgotten the God of your salvation
    and have not remembered the ^(B)Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
    and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,

¹⁴ For ^(A)Israel has forgotten ^(B)his Maker
    and ^(C)built palaces,
and ^(D)Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
    so ^(E)I will send a fire upon his cities,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.