And so I command the sky to shake with horror, to be amazed and astonished,

for my people have committed two sins: they have turned away from me, the spring of fresh water, and they have dug cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all.

A terrible and shocking thing has happened in the land:

prophets speak nothing but lies; priests rule as the prophets command, and my people offer no objections. But what will they do when it all comes to an end?"

The LORD says, "Ask every nation if such a thing has ever happened before. The people of Israel have done a terrible thing!

But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.

The LORD says, "Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!

The people of Israel are under the spell of idols. Let them go their own way.

I know what Israel is like---she cannot hide from me. She has been unfaithful, and her people are unfit to worship me."

But he ignored the advice of the older men and went instead to the young men who had grown up with him and who were now his advisers.

This happened because Jeroboam aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by the sins that he committed and that he caused Israel to commit.

Samaria fell because the Israelites sinned against the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the king of Egypt and had led them out of Egypt. They worshiped other gods,

When Josiah was king, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what Israel, that unfaithful woman, has done? She has turned away from me, and on every high hill and under every green tree she has acted like a prostitute.

Although she was mine, Oholah continued to be a prostitute and was full of lust for her lovers from Assyria.