but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere.

By the LORD's help he was a great hunter, and that is why people say, "May the LORD make you as great a hunter as Nimrod!"

whose people were wicked and sinned against the LORD.

He sacrificed his son as a burnt offering. He practiced divination and magic and consulted fortunetellers and mediums. He sinned greatly against the LORD and stirred up his anger.

I have sinned against you---only against you--- and done what you consider evil. So you are right in judging me; you are justified in condemning me.

Yes, Jerusalem is doomed! Judah is collapsing! Everything they say and do is against the LORD; they openly insult God himself.

"But now you priests have turned away from the right path. Your teaching has led many to do wrong. You have broken the covenant I made with you.

This is another thing you do. You drown the LORD's altar with tears, weeping and wailing because he no longer accepts the offerings you bring him.

How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen---but how terrible for the one who causes them!