And I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.

I would hasten my escape from the rushing wind and tempest.

Woe is me, that I have sojourned in Meshech, that I have dwelt in the tents of Kedar!

I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Woe is me! For I am like the gatherings of summer fruit, like the gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the first-ripe fruit.

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. Both the ruler and the judge ask for a bribe. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; and they weave it together.

Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;

But I will look to Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me, and have sworn by those that are not gods. When I adjured them, then they committed adultery, and gathered themselves by troops in a harlot's house.

They were like lusty, well-fed stallions in the morning; every one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

For the land is full of adulterers. Yes, because of cursing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their strength is not right.

In you men uncover the nakedness of their fathers; in you they humble women during their menstrual impurity.

One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you humbles his sister, his father's daughter.

Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery burst forth. And blood touches against blood.

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker; he ceases from stirring after kneading the dough until it is leavened.

Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore purposes to be a friend of the world is shown to be opposing God.

Righteous are You, O Jehovah, when I complain to You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those who deceive with treachery at ease?

For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you. Yea, they have called out a multitude after you. Do not believe them, though they speak pleasant things to you.

They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah, for they have brought forth strange sons. Now a new moon shall devour them with their heritage.

But, like Adam, they have transgressed the covenant; they have dealt treacherously against Me there.

The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.

The best of them is like a thorn; the upright more than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchman and your punishment comes; now shall be their perplexity.

Her prophets are wanton, treacherous people; her priests have profaned the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and has done an abomination in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.