And the king took counsel, and went, and made two golden heifers, and said to the people, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold, [here are] your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

And this thing became a sin; and the people went before one as far as Dan, and left the house of the Lord.

And Jeroboam appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, according to the feast in the land of Judah;

But you, O Israel, be not ignorant, and go not to Gilgal, O [men of] Judah, and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.

The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On; for the people of it mourned for it. And as they provoked Him, they shall rejoice at His glory, because He has departed from them.

thus will I do to you, O house of Israel, because of the unrighteousness of your sins.

For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground.

You went into Bethel and sinned, and you multiplied sin at Gilgal; and you brought your grain offerings in the morning, and your tithes every third day.

But seek not Bethel, and go not into Gilgal, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.

but you shall no longer prophesy at Bethel- for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house.

But they rejected me forever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me.

But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn; now they reprove me in their turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy [to be with] my shepherd dogs.

[They are] sons of fools and vile men, [whose] name and glory [are] quenched from off the earth.

And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.

They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.

And He has pleaded against me as He wills- I am overwhelmed with pains.

Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me, and days of anguish seize me.

With great force [my disease] has taken hold of my garment- it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.

And I have cried to You, but You do not hear me: but they stood still, and observed me.

And You have put me to grief, and have cast me away from safety.

Oh, that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me!

But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came upon me all the more.

I went mourning without restraint, and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.

And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.

A youth [when in company] with a godly man, will be restrained in his devices, and then his way will be straight.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are [then] far from him.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and folly are vanity.

Alas, sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children; you have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

And the people shall fall, man upon man, and [every] man upon his neighbor; the child shall insult the elder man, and the base [toward] the honorable.

Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink offerings to strange gods, that they might provoke Me to anger.

And Sarah, having seen the son of Hagar the Egyptian, who was born to Abraham, sporting with Isaac her son,

Nevertheless they sneered at His messengers, and despised His words, and mocked His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against His people, till there was no remedy.

But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn; now they reprove me in their turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy [to be with] my shepherd dogs.

[They are] sons of fools and vile men, [whose] name and glory [are] quenched from off the earth.

But now I am their music, and they have me for a byword.

Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew [it] not; they were scattered, but repented not.

But draw nearby, you lawless children, the seed of adulterers and the harlot.

Against whom have you been rioting? And against whom have you opened your mouth, and against whom have you loosed your tongue? Are you not children of perdition? A lawless seed?

But just as then the [one] who was born according to the flesh persecuted the [one born] according to the Spirit, so it is also now.

Still others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and of prison.

And it came to pass as they were going, they went on talking; and behold, a chariot of fire [appeared,] with horses of fire, and it separated the two of them; and Elijah was taken up in a whirlwind into heaven.

When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And kneeling before Him, they mocked Him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

And when they had mocked Him, they stripped Him of the robe, and dressed Him in His own clothes, and led Him away in order to crucify [Him].

and saying, "You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross."

He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on Him.