And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.
Thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
And he said also unto the disciples, {\cf6 There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods.
O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.\par
Come ye, {\i say they}, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, {\i a day} great beyond measure.\par
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged {\i and gone} backward.
suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; {\i men} that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;