Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged backward.
Yet the Word of Jehovah was to them, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they might go, and stumble, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
And Egypt is a man, and not God. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And Jehovah stretches out His hand, and both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall; and together they all shall be finished.
And I will speak My judgments against them on all their evil, those who have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods, and have worshiped the works of their hands.
And I will dash them a man against his brother, even the fathers and the sons together, a statement of Jehovah. I will not pity and not spare and not have compassion to keep them from their destruction.
For My people have done two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Your own evil shall instruct you, and your apostasies shall reprove you. Therefore know and see that your forsaking Jehovah your God is evil and bitter; and My fear is not in you, a statement of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.
And I said, I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name. But His Word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary of holding in, and I was not able.
And Jehovah could not still bear it because of the evil of your doings, because of the abominations you have done. And your land became a waste, and a horror, and a curse, without one living in it, as this day.
And I am full of the fury of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in. Pour it out on the child in the street and on the circle of the young men together. For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the elder with fullness of days.
And their houses shall be turned to others, fields and wives together. For I will stretch out My hand on those living in the land, a statement of Jehovah.
Hear, O earth, behold, I will bring evil on this people, the fruit of their thoughts; for they have not paid attention to My words; and My Law, they also rejected it.
But they did not listen, and did not stretch out their ear. But they walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
And the prophet, if he is deceived, and he speaks a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet. And I will stretch out My hand on him and will destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.
so, behold, I will stretch out My hand on you and will give you as a prize to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will make you perish from the lands; I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am Jehovah.
And say to it, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will give you to be a ruin and a waste.
I will ransom them from the hand of Sheol; I will redeem them from death. O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your ruin? Repentance is hidden from My eyes.
I will also stretch out My hand on Judah and on all those dwelling in Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, the name of the idol-priests, with the priests;