And not many days after, gathering up all things, the younger son went abroad to a distant country. And there he squandered his property, living dissolutely.
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.
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.
O generation, see the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam; we will come no more to You.
receiving the wages of unrighteousness, deeming luxuriousness in the day to be pleasure; they are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, feasting together with you,