And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
O generation, see ye the word of YY . Have I been a wilderness unto Yisrael? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are YY s; 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.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken YY , they have provoked the Holy One of Yisrael unto anger, they are gone away backward.
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;