And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. And they do not return to Jehovah their God, nor seek Him for all this.

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.

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 all the people shall know; Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and insolence of heart,

The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will use cedars instead.

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is at the head of the lush valleys of those who are overcome with wine!

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trampled under foot;

Those who make a graven image, all of them are vanity; and the things which they desire shall not help. And they are their own witnesses; they do not see nor know; that they may be ashamed.

For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

O Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, work for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.

Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

And he said to him, Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a harsh man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow.

Therefore you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you at night, and I will destroy your mother.

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

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

Though hand join to hand, the wicked shall not be held innocent, but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

The wicked is cast down in his wickedness, but the righteous has refuge in his death.

for a just man may fall seven times, and rise up again; but the wicked shall stumble into evil.

The virgin of Israel has fallen, and will not rise again; she lies forsaken on her land; there is no one to raise her up.

For I am to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, tear and go away; I take away, and no one rescues.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall burn up his palaces.

Also Judah did not keep the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.

And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them away from before His face.

You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will put her cup into your hand.

You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore you shall bear the penalty of your lewdness and your harlotry.

Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from punishing it; for they despised the Law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.

And I will send a fire against Judah, which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.