Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Izevel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
O Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy Torah behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
But they mocked the messengers of Elohim, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of YY arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
So Mnasheh made Yhudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom YY had destroyed before the children of Yisrael.
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Therefore thus saith YY Elohim; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
But he walked in the way of the kings of Yisrael, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom YY cast out from before the children of Yisrael.
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
And ye shall know that I am YY : for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
Then say thou, Thus saith YY Elohim, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.