Have you not brought this upon yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way?

Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices.

His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

The expression of their faces witnesses against them; they have declared their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have recompensed evil upon themselves.

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down;

Thus says Jehovah, Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, whom I have put away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Behold, you have been sold for your iniquities, and your mother has been put away for your sins.

And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity. Judah shall also stumble with them.

Jehovah also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has committed adultery there.

And I saw, when for all the causes for which backsliding Israel committed adultery, I put her away and gave her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and committed adultery.

And Jehovah said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself to be more righteous than treacherous Judah.

Only, acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says Jehovah.

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, and a wolf of the deserts shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased.

Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a continual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

For Israel rebels like a stubborn heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large area.

And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, no one at all exalts Him.

O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

But they refused to heed, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and they made their ears heavy that they might not hear.

Your way and your doings have procured these things for you; this is your evil, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

though he spares it and does not forsake it, but still keeps it in his mouth,

He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; the Mighty God casts them out of his belly.

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 it like the mourning for an only one; and the end of it like a bitter day.

Do you not fear Me? says Jehovah. Will you not tremble at My presence, I who have placed the sand for the boundary of the sea by a perpetual decree, so that it cannot pass it? And though its waves toss to and fro, yet they cannot prevail; though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it?

And it happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that he cut it with the scribe's knife and threw it into the fire in the hearth, until all the scroll was burned up in the hearth.

Yet the king and all his servants who heard these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah.] i0 par The transgression of the wicked declares within my heart: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.