And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built.

I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to Me, and if not, I will know.

These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Now therefore let Me alone, and I will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make you a great nation.

Hear, My people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I will testify to you; I am God, your God.

Is My house, which is called by My name, a den of robbers in your eyes? And behold, I have seen [it], says the Lord.

your adultery also, and your neighing, and the looseness of your fornication. On the hills and in the fields I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem, for you have not been purified so as to follow Me; how long yet [shall it be]?

I have seen horrible [things] there, [even] the fornication of Ephraim. Israel and Judah are defiled;

And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by My name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord Almighty.

And you shall know this day, that [it is] not for your righteousnesses that the Lord your God gives to you this good land to inherit, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Therefore you shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and you shall not stiffen your neck.

For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, you have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall you not also be so after my death?

But they hearkened not, and made their neck harder than the neck of their fathers.