Blessed is the man who is continually in awe, but he who hardens his heart shall fall into evil.

A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.

Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights, and see. Where have you not been lain with and ravished? By the highways you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your harlotry and with your evil.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead; you refused to be ashamed.

O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abominations? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; in the time of their punishment they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.

As for the Word that you have spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, we will not give heed to you.

But we will prepare and do whatever goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our rulers, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and were well-off, and saw no evil.

The righteousness of the perfect shall make his way right, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

I have considered my ways, and turned my feet unto Your Testimonies.

Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he had done, he shall live life; he shall not die.

And now, thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways.

And now set your heart on it, from this day and onward: before the placing of a stone on a stone in the temple of Jehovah;

Now set your heart from this day and forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid. Consider in your heart.

Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not brought forth. From this day I will bless them.

But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger.

I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you,

Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.