Righteousness exalts a nation; And loving-commitment, To the peoples is sin.
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Righteousness exalts a nation; And loving-commitment, To the peoples is sin.
How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.
“How do you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Ba‛als’? See your way in the valley, know what you have done: a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,
Why do you cry about your breach? Your pain is incurable. Because of your many crookednesses, because your sins have increased, I have done this to you.
And I shall make the land a wasteland, because they committed trespass,’ declares the Master יהוה.”
And He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Yisra’ĕl, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against Me. They and their fathers have transgressed against Me, until this day.
“And now, son of man, judge, judge the city of blood! And you shall show her all her abominations!
the children of Baḇel, and all the Kasdim, Peqoḏ, and Showa, and Qowa, all the sons of Ashshur with them, all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, officers and men of name, all of them riding on horses.
The beginning of the word of יהוה with Hoshĕa. And יהוה said to Hoshĕa, “Go, take yourself a woman of whoring and children of whoring, for the land has utterly whored away from יהוה.”
“My people ask from their Wood, and their Staff declares to them. For a spirit of whorings has led them astray, and they went whoring from under their Elohim.
Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of Yehuḏah, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they have rejected the Torah of יהוה, and did not guard His laws. And their lies after which their fathers walked lead them astray.
“And see, a lead cover lifted up, and this: a woman sitting inside the ĕphah-measure!”