So says Jehovah, Where is the scroll of your mother’s divorce whom I have put away? Or to which of My creditors that I have sold you to him? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
Sinning Jerusalem has sinned; on acccount of this she has become as one impure. All the ones knowing her despise her, for they saw her nakedness. Also, she groans and turns backward.
Then they shall cry out to Jehovah, but He will not answer them. He will even hide His face from them in that time, as they have done evil in their doings.
Israel has sinned, and they also have transgressed My covenant which I commanded them, and have also taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and also deceived, and also put it among their stuff.
And the people came into the camp, and the elders of Israel said, Why has Jehovah stricken us today before the Philistines? Let us take the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to us from Shiloh, and let it come into our midst; and it will save us from the palm of our enemies.