Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

I will send My wrath against a sinful nation, and I will command My people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make dust out of them.

For the people are disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God;

But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.

Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

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,

Because her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

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?

Behold, you have risen up in the room of your fathers, a combination of sinful men, to increase yet farther the fierce wrath of the Lord against Israel.

That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God.

but they hearkened not to Me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.

Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers forsook Me, says the Lord, and went after strange gods and served them, and worshipped them, and forsook Me, and kept not My law.

(And you sinned worse than your fathers- for behold, you walk everyone after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to listen to Me).

But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Serpents! Brood of vipers! How shall you escape from the condemnation of hell?

What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? [It shall] not [be] so; moreover you have done wickedly in corrupting your ways;

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.

And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which He appointed to their fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt,

And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers, and this people shall arise and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land, into which they are entering: and they will forsake Me, and break My covenant, which I made with them.

And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, We have sinned against You, because we have forsaken God, and served Baalam.

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.

Has not your forsaking Me brought these things upon you? Says the Lord your God.

Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you. Know then, and see, that your forsaking Me [has been] bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah has fallen, and their tongues [have spoken] with iniquity, disobedient [as they are] towards the Lord.

This is the people that provokes Me continually in My presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to demons, which exist not.

And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of His sons and daughters,

How often did they provoke Him in the wilderness, [and] anger Him in a dry land!

Do they provoke Me to anger? Says the Lord. Do they not [provoke] themselves, that their faces may be ashamed?

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see [it]; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know [it].

Therefore as stubble shall be burned by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust; for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Exalt and rejoice, you that dwell in Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.

and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy.

and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from us the oracle of Israel.

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you have refused to obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because you have murmured, and been confident in this respect;

Thus says the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When you shall turn and mourn, then you shall be saved; and you shall know where you were, when you trusted in vanities; [then] your strength became vain, yet you would not hearken;

Whom have you reproached and provoked? And against whom have you lifted up your voice? And have you not lifted up your eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?

Fear not, Jacob, [and you] Israel few in number; I have helped you, says your God, He that redeems you, O Israel.

and you shall winnow [them], and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them; but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

that they may see, and know, and perceive, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done these [works], and the Holy One of Israel has displayed [them].

for [our] help is of the Lord; and of the Holy One of Israel, our King.

Summon many against Babylon, everyone that bends the bow. Camp against her round about; let none of her [people] escape. Render to her according to her works, according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.

For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken of their God, of the Lord Almighty; whereas their land was filled with iniquity against the holy things of Israel.

Sinners have gone astray from the womb; they go astray from the belly; they speak lies.

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?

Therefore hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? Why have My people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to You anymore?

Therefore the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it.

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for His body, which is the church,