Blessed is the man who religiously fears always, but the hard of heart shall fall into mischief.

A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man, for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.

Lift up your eyes [and look] straight ahead, and see where you have not been utterly defiled. You have sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and have defiled the land with your fornications and your wickedness.

And you retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself. You had a whore's face; you became shameless toward all.

O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

[This translation omits this verse.]

[As for] the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. And [so] we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.

Righteousness traces out blameless paths, but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing.

I thought on Your ways, and turned my feet to Your testimonies.

and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

And now thus says the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways!

Thus says the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways!

[ 2:16] And now consider from this day forward, before they laid a stone upon a stone in the temple of the Lord, what manner of men you were.

[ 2:19] Set your hearts now [to think] from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid;

[ 2:20] consider in your hearts, whether [this] shall be known on the grain floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive trees that bear no fruit [are with you]: from this day will I bless [you].

But having come to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have an abundance of bread, and I am perishing with hunger!

I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, lead us directly to you.