I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall surely perish from off the land, into which you go across the Jordan to inherit it there; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off.

I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose life, that you and your seed may live;

Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words out of my mouth.

He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that He may judge His people.

The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horrorstruck, says the Lord.

Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring evils upon this people, [even] the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded My words, and they have rejected My law.

O earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord!

Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to [the places] that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;

Hear [these] words, you people; and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be among you for a testimony, the Lord out of His holy habitation.

Hear now a word: the Lord God has said; Arise, plead with the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

Hear, O you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you valleys; even the foundations of the earth: for the Lord has a controversy with His people, and will plead with Israel.

Hear, and give ear, and be not proud; for the Lord has spoken.

Hear this word, O house of Israel, which the Lord has spoken concerning you, and against the whole family whom I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.

For we can do none other but to speak the things which we saw and heard.

Now I will sing to [my] Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. [My] Beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place.

And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine vat in it; and I waited [for it] to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.

Hear Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by Me] from the womb, and taught [by Me] from infancy, [even] to old age;

I am [He]; and until you have grown old, I am [He]; I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.

and in this wilderness which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord your God will bear you like a son, as if any man should carry his son, through all the way which you have gone, until you came to this place.

For what manner of nation [is so] great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God [is] in all things in whatsoever we may call upon Him?

And what manner of nation [is so] great, which has righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?

They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

And I passed by to you, and saw you polluted in your blood; and I said to you, [Let there be] life out of your blood;

And I passed by you and saw you, and behold, [it was] your time and a time of resting; and I spread My wings over you, and covered your shame, and swore [an oath] to you; and I entered into covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became Mine.

And I clothed you with embroidered [garments], and clothed you beneath with purple, and girded you with fine linen, and clothed you with silk,

And I put a pendant in your nose, and rings in your ears, and a crown of glory on your head.

And your name went forth among the nations because of your beauty; because it was perfected with elegance, [and] in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord.

and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: From the day that I chose the house of Israel, and became known to the seed of the house of Jacob, and was known to them in the land of Egypt, and helped them with My hand, saying, I am the Lord your God;

And I said to them, Let everyone cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

But I acted [so] that My name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

And I gave them My commandments, and made known to them My ordinances, all which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them.

And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk in My commandments: but they walked not [in them], and they rejected My ordinances, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned My Sabbaths. And I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

But I lifted up My hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands;

Yet My eyes spared them, so as [not] to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

I [am] the Lord your God; walk in My commandments, and keep My ordinances, and do them;

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.

I lifted up My hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, [and] disperse them in the countries;

So I gave them commandments [that were] not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.

Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: In this too have your fathers provoked Me in their trespasses in which they transgressed against Me.

And I said to them, What is Bamah, that you go in there? And they called its name Bamah, until this day.

and [do you pollute yourselves] with the firstfruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith you pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, says the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.

What then [is] the superiority of the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

Much in every way! First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

who are Israelites, of whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the worship, and the promises;

of whom are the fathers and from whom Christ [came], according to the flesh, He who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

out of all their affliction; not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but [He H]imself saved them, because He loved them and spared them; He Himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.

But they disobeyed, and provoked His Holy Spirit; so He turned to be an enemy, He Himself contended against them.

Also in the burning, and in the temptation, and at the Graves of Lust, you provoked the Lord.

You were disobedient in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which He became known to you.

Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in Me, that they have revolted far from Me, and gone after vanities, and have become vain?

And I brought you to Carmel, that you should eat the fruits thereof, and the goods thereof; and you went in, and defiled My land, and made My heritage an abomination.

Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children.

if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but My people have changed their glory, [for that] from which they shall not be profited.

For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.

A son honors [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I am a Father, where is My honor? And if I am a Master, where is My fear? Says the Lord Almighty. You the priests are they that despise My name: yet you said, In what way have we despised Your name?