And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and walked after other gods, of the gods of the nations round about them; and they worshipped them.

And they provoked the Lord, and forsook Him, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

And I will speak to them in judgment concerning all their iniquity, [forasmuch] as they have forsaken Me, and sacrificed to strange gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up; surely this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

PHE. The Lord has done that which He purposed; He has accomplished His word, even the things which He commanded from the ancient days; He has thrown down, and has not spared, and He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, He has exalted the horn of him that afflicted you.

MEM. For the sins of her prophets, and iniquities of her priests, who shed righteous blood in the midst of her,

SAMECH. Depart from the unclean ones; call them: depart, depart, touch [them] not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger. Say among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [there].

And they shall comfort you, because you shall see their ways and their thoughts; and you shall know that I have not done in vain all that I have done in it, says the Lord.

Son of man, the house of Israel dwelt upon their land, and defiled it by their way, and with their idols, and with their uncleannesses; and their way was before Me like the uncleanness of a removed woman.

and I dispersed them among the nations, and utterly scattered them through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their sin.

And He brought the king of the Chaldeans against them, and killed their young men with the sword in the house of His sanctuary, and did not spare Zedekiah, and had no mercy upon their virgins, and they led away their old men; He delivered all things into their hands.

And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, [by] bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem.