You are wearied in your counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver you, let them that see the stars tell you what is about to come upon you.

For you have been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat your ways; but you shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

Everyone will mock his friend; they will not speak truth; their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.

and her abundant scum may not come forth from her.

Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? Surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.

but only [troubled him] in his affliction. And he departed yet again from the Lord, and King Ahaz said,

I will seek after the gods of Damascus that attack me. And he said, Forasmuch as the gods of the king of Syria themselves strengthen them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, and they will help me. But they became a stumbling block to him, and to all Israel.

Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself- for she loved strangers, and went after them.

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.

But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all been brought low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine.

For I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

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.