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

Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.

Iniquities ensnare a man, and everyone is bound in the chains of his own sins.

Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be [left] to be trodden down.

Thus says the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? Or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, you are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.

And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquities; and Judah also shall fall with them.

And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what things the house of Israel has done to Me? They have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.

And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a certificate of divorce) yet faithless Judah feared not, but went and also committed fornication herself.

And the Lord said to me, Israel has justified himself more than faithless Judah.

Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not hearken to My voice, says the Lord.

Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them, even to [their] houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities. All that go forth from them shall be hunted, for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their backslidings.

Why have My people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?

For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

And his people [shall] cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities.

But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.

Your ways and your devices have brought these things upon you; this is your wickedness, for [it is] bitter, for it has reached to your heart.

His bones have been filled with the [vigor of] his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.

though he will not spare it, and will not leave it, but will keep it in the midst of his throat:

[His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger of [wrath] shall drag him out of his house.

and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved [friend], and those with them as a day of grief.

Will you not fear Me? Says the Lord; and will you not fear before Me, who has set the sand as a boundary for the sea, [as] a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it. Yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.

And it came to pass when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut them off with a penknife, and cast [them] into the fire that was on the hearth, until the whole scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

And the king and his servants that heard all these words did not seek [the Lord], and did not tear their clothes.

For the end, [A Psalm], by David the servant of the Lord. The transgressor, that he may sin, says within himself, [that] there is no fear of God before his eyes.

There is no fear of God before their eyes."