And Jehovah smelled the soothing fragrance, and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for the sake of man, because the purpose of the heart of man is evil from his youth. Yea, I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are long to him, yet surely I know that it shall be well to those who fear God, who fear before Him.
This is an evil event among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil purpose, and madness is in their heart while they are alive, and after that they go to those who died.
This evil people who refuse to hear My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and walk after other gods,to serve them and to bow down to them, shall even be like this girdle which is not useful for anything.
Is this man Coniah a despised shattered jar, or a vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they do not know?
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.
Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: Are you being defiled in the way of your fathers? And do you go fornicating after their abominable idols?
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from it; for they rejected the Law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.
From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Turn back to Me, and I will turn back to you, says Jehovah of Hosts. But you say, In what way shall we turn back?
and it happens when he hears the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to snatch away the drunken with the thirsty.
And at the death of the judge, it happened that they would turn and act more corruptly than their fathers, to go after other gods, to serve them, and to bow themselves to them. And they did not fall away from their own doings, and from their stubborn way.
For the sin of divination is rebellion; insolence is both iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, so He has rejected you from being king.