At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, [There is] a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of My people is not to purity, nor to holiness.

[But] a spirit of full vengeance shall come upon Me; and now I declare My judgments against them.

Thus says the Lord: Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling there, a deadly burning wind.

And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, two women coming forth, and the wind was in their wings; and they had stork's wings; and they lifted up the measure between the earth and the sky.

And he said to me, To build a house for it in the land of Babylon, and to prepare [a place for it]; and they shall set it there on its own base.

And having bound it for the Assyrians, they carried it away as presents to King Jareb. Ephraim shall receive a gift, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they have been made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.

But they are turned back; be utterly ashamed, you that trust in graven [images], who say to the molten [images], You are our gods.

As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.

They said to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have begotten me; and they have turned [their] backs to Me, and not their faces. Yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.

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.

For you shall go forth from here also with your hands upon your head; for the Lord has rejected your hope, and you shall not prosper in it.

But shame has consumed the labors of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.

We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us. Because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

O Lord, the hope of Israel, let all that have left You be ashamed, let them that have revolted be written on the earth, because they have forsaken the fountain of life, the Lord.