And the children of Israel did evil before the Lord, and served Baalam.

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 took their daughters for wives to themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served Baalam and the groves.

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalam, and Ashtoreth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the Lord, and did not serve Him.

Yet you forsook Me and served other gods; therefore I will not save you anymore.

Go, and cry to the gods whom you have chosen to yourselves, and let them save you in the time of your affliction.

Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and kept not His testimonies.

And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers; they became like a crooked bow.

They destroyed not the nations which the Lord told them [to destroy];

And they served their graven images; and it became an offense to them.

and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood,

So the Lord was very angry with His people, and He abhorred His inheritance.

But you trusted in your beauty, and went a-whoring because of your fame, and poured out your fornication on every passer by.

And you took your fair ornaments of My gold and of My silver, of what I gave you, and you made for yourself male images, and you committed harlotry with them.

And [you took] My bread which I gave you, ([yea,] I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey) and set them before them for a sweet-smelling savor; yes, it was so, says the Lord.

and slain your children, and gave them up, in offering them up as a sacrifice.

And it came to pass after all your wickedness, says the Lord,

and on the head of every road you set up your fornications, and defiled your beauty, and opened your feet to every passer by, and multiplied your fornication.

And if I stretch out My hand against you, then will I abolish your statutes, and deliver [you] up to the will of those that hate you, [even to] the daughters of the Philistines that turned you aside from the way in which you sinned.

And you multiplied your covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these were you satisfied.

You have built a house of harlotry at the head of every road, and have set up your high place in every street; and you became as a harlot gathering payments.

She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and you have given rewards to all your lovers, yea, you loaded them with rewards, that they should come to you from every side for your fornication.

Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord:

Therefore, behold, I [will] gather all your lovers with whom you have consorted, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you hated; and I will gather them against you round about, and will expose your wickedness to them, and they shall see all your shame.

And I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall break down your house of harlotry, and destroy your high place; and they shall strip you of your garments, and shall take your proud ornaments, and leave you naked and bare.

And they shall burn your houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on you in the sight of many women; and I will turn you back from harlotry, and I will no more give [you] rewards.

Because you did not remember the days of your youth, and you grieved Me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed your ways upon your head, says the Lord; for thus have you wrought ungodliness above all your [other] iniquities.

As is the mother, so is your mother's daughter: you are she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of your sisters have rejected their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and [your] father an Amorite.

Yet notwithstanding you have not walked in their ways, neither have you done according to their iniquities within a little, but you have exceeded them in all your ways.

Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom- pride. She and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread [and] in abundance; this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy.

Also Samaria has not sinned according to half of your sins; but you have multiplied your iniquities beyond them, and you have justified your sisters in all your iniquities which you have committed.

And I will turn their captivity, [even] the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them;

And your sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored as they were at the beginning, and you and your daughters shall be restored as you were at the beginning.

before your wickedness was discovered, even now you are the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, [even] of the daughters of the Philistines that compass you round about.

Thus says the Lord: I will even do to you as you have done, as you have dealt shamefully in these things to transgress My covenant.

Then you shall remember your way, and shall be utterly dishonored when you receive your elder sisters with your younger ones, and I will give them to you for building up, but not by your covenant.

that you may remember, and be ashamed, and may no more be able to open your mouth for your shame, when I am reconciled to you for all that you have done, says the Lord.

But they provoked Me, and their children walked not in My commandments, and they took no heed to My ordinances to do them, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish My anger upon them.

And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they were Mine, and bore sons and daughters: and [as for] their names, Samaria was Oholah, and Jerusalem was Oholibah.

clothed with purple, princes and captains; [they were] young men and choice, all horsemen riding on horses.

And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her.

They uncovered her shame; they took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a byword among women; and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters.

She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbors, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; [they were] all choice young men.

And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,

And she doted upon them as soon as she saw them, and sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans.

And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame. And My soul was alienated from her, even as My soul was alienated from her sister.

and you doted upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and their members [as] the members of horses.

Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] stir up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon you round about,

And they all shall come upon you from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and [the enemy] shall set a watch against you round about;and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on you with their judgements.

And they shall strip you of your clothing, and take [away] your ornaments.

Wherefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I [will] deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, from whom your soul is alienated.

has brought this upon you, in that you went a-whoring after the nations, and defiled yourself with their devices.

Thus says the Lord: Drink your sister's cup, deep and large and full, to cause complete drunkenness.

drink it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons; for I have spoken [it], says the Lord.

And the Lord said to me, Son of man, will you not judge Oholah and Oholibah, and declare to them their iniquities?

So long too as they did these things to Me, they defiled My sanctuary, and profaned My Sabbaths.

and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately you washed yourself, and painted your eyes and adorned yourself with ornaments,

and they raised a sound of music, and [that] with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads.

And they went in to her, as [men] go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, to work iniquity.

Thus says the Lord God: Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them.

And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Seeing you have hated instruction, and have cast My words behind [you].

and he shall see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and sound an alarm to the people;

Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him. But the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul.

And it came to pass when Jezabel had killed the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.

Has it not been told to you my lord, what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how that I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

And Elijah said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken You; they have dug down Your altars, and have slain Your prophets with the sword; and I alone am left, and they seek my life, to take it.

And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood up above the people and said, Thus says the Lord: Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord? So shall you not prosper; for you have forsaken the Lord, and He will forsake you.

And they conspired against him, and stoned him by command of King Joash in the court of the Lord's house.

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.

And there was [another] man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath Jearim; and he prophesied concerning this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

And the king sent men to Egypt,

And the farmers took his servants, they beat one, and one they killed, and another they stoned.

Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise [men], and scribes: some of them you will kill and you will crucify, and [some] of them you will flog in your synagogues and you will persecute from city to city,

Assuredly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers,

And still farther they even made for themselves a molded calf, and said, These [are] the gods that brought us up out of Egypt: and they worked great provocations.

Forasmuch as Manasseh the king of Judah has wrought all these evil abominations, beyond all that the Amorites did who lived before [him], and has led Judah also into sin by their idols,

whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and your widows are multiplied in the midst of you.

Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.

That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

So I have poured out My wrath upon her in the fury of My anger, to accomplish [it]. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, says the Lord God.