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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This message from the LORD came to me: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Go and announce to Jerusalem: 'This is what the LORD says: "I remember the loyal devotion of your youth, your love as a bride. You followed me in the desert, in a land that was not planted. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Israel was consecrated to the LORD, she was the first fruits of his produce. All who devoured her became guilty and disaster came on them," declares the LORD.'" |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Listen to this message from the LORD, you descendants of Jacob and all the families of the descendants of Israel. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5This is what the LORD says: "What did your ancestors find wrong with me that they left me, and pursued worthless things, and so they became worthless? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"They didn't ask, 'Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the land of desert and pits, through the land of dryness and deep darkness, a land that people don't pass through, and where no one lives?' |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"I brought you into the fruitful land to eat its fruit and its good things. But you came in, defiled my land, and made my inheritance into an abomination. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"The priests didn't say, 'Where is the LORD?' and those handling the Law didn't know me. The rulers transgressed against me, the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they followed that which does not profit. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Therefore I'll again accuse you," declares the LORD, "and I'll accuse your grandchildren." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Indeed, go over to the coasts of Cyprus and see, send to Kedar and pay very close attention. See if there has ever been such a thing as this! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Has a nation ever changed gods when they aren't even gods? But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Heavens, be appalled at this, be shocked, be utterly devastated," declares the LORD. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Indeed, my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Is Israel a slave, or was he born a servant? Why then has he become plunder? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Young lions roar at him, they cry out loudly. They have made his land into a wasteland, and his cities are destroyed so they are without inhabitants. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Also, people from Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken your skull. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17You have done this to yourselves, have you not, by forsaking the LORD your God, when he is the one who led you on the way? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Now, what are you doing on the road to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? And what are you doing on the road to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Your wickedness will be punished, and you will be corrected due to your acts of apostasy. Know and see that it's evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God, but the fear of me is not in you," declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, But you said, 'I won't serve you!' Instead, on every high hill and under every green tree, you bend down to commit fornication. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I planted you myself as a choice vine, from the very best seed. How did you turn against me into a degenerate and foreign vine? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me," declares the Lord GOD. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"How can you say, 'I'm not defiled. I haven't gone after the Baals.'? Look at what you've done in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift young camel galloping aimlessly; |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her passion. When she's in heat, who can turn her away? None of the males who pursue her need to tire themselves out, for in her month they'll find her." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"Don't run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you say, 'It's hopeless! Because I love foreign gods, I'll go after them!'" |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"As a thief is disgraced when he's caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced— they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'You gave birth to me.' They have turned their back to me, but not their faces. In the time of their trouble, they'll say, 'Rise up! Deliver us!'" |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"But where are your gods that you made for yourselves? Let them rise up, if they can deliver you in the time of your trouble. You have as many gods as you have towns, Judah. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Why do you contend with me? You have rebelled against me," declares the LORD. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"I've punished your children with no results, they have accepted no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion." |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"You, generation, pay attention to this message from the LORD! Am I the desert to Israel, or a land of gloom? Why do my people say, 'We're free to roam? We won't come to you anymore.' |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Will a young woman forget her wedding ornaments, or a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33How well you perfect your techniques for seeking love. Therefore you can teach even the most immoral women your techniques. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34On your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, even though you didn't catch them breaking in. Yet despite all these things, |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35you say, 'I'm innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.'" "I'm about to bring charges against you because you say, 'I haven't sinned.' |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Why do you go about changing your mind so much? You will also be disappointed by Egypt, just as you were disappointed by Assyria. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37You will also go out from this place with your hands over your heads. For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won't prosper through them." |
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