What shall I do unto you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Judah? For your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.

And Israel has forgotten Him that made him, and they have built palaces, and Judah has multiplied walled cities: but I will send fire on his cities, and it shall devour their foundations.

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.

For their heart [was] not right with Him, neither were they steadfast in His covenant.

And for all these things faithless Judah turned not to Me with all her heart, but falsely.

But those on the rock are they that, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away.

"When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through waterless places, seeking rest; and not finding [any], he says, 'I will return to my house from where I came out.'

Then he goes and takes along seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they come and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first."

And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers; they became like a crooked bow.

Woe to them! For they have started aside from Me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against Me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against Me.

who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?

your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have worked deceit.

and He has delivered my soul from the midst of [the lion's] whelps; I lay down to sleep, [though] troubled. [As for] the sons of men, their teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

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

Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

But I say to you, that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Even so the tongue is a small member and it boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!

(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, tormented his righteous soul by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)--

And a mouth was given to him speaking great things and blasphemy, and authority was given to him to make war for forty-two months.

For if they should offer a sacrifice, and eat flesh, the Lord will not accept them. Now will He remember their iniquities, and will take vengeance on their sins; they have returned to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

They dwelt not in the Lord's land: Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them. [As for] their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns [shall be] in their tents.

Thus says the Lord: Drink your sister's cup, deep and large and full, to cause complete drunkenness.

And they went in among the nations, among which they went, and they profaned My holy name, while it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord, and they came forth out of His land.