Therefore the angerof the LORDwas kindledagainst His peopleAnd He abhorredHis inheritance.
So he was an adversaryto Israelallthe daysof Solomon,along with the evilthat Hadad[did]; and he abhorredIsraeland reignedoverAram.
O God,whyhave You rejected[us] forever?Why does Your angersmokeagainst the sheepof Your pasture?
"I have forsakenMy house,I have abandonedMy inheritance;I have giventhe belovedof My soulInto the handof her enemies.
The Lordhas rejectedHis altar,He has abandonedHis sanctuary;He has deliveredinto the handof the enemyThe wallsof her palaces.They have madea noisein the houseof the LORDAs in the dayof an appointedfeast.
Moreover, you shall not followthe customsof the nationwhichI will driveout beforeyou, for they didallthesethings,and therefore I have abhorredthem.
I then will destroyyour highplaces,and cutdownyour incensealtars,and heapyour remainson the remainsof your idols,for My soulshall abhoryou.
Then I annihilatedthe threeshepherdsin onemonth,for my soulwas impatientwith them, and their soulalsowas wearyof me.
"The LORDsaw[this], and spurned[them] Becauseof the provocationof His sonsand daughters.
Yet they are Your people,even Your inheritance,whomYou have broughtout by Your greatpowerand Your outstretchedarm.'
The angerof the LORDburnedagainst Israel,and He gavethem into the handsof plundererswho plunderedthem; and He soldthem into the handsof their enemiesaround[them], so that they couldnolongerstandbeforetheir enemies.
So the angerof the LORDburnedagainst Israel,and He said,"Becausethisnationhas transgressedMy covenantwhichI commandedtheir fathersand has not listenedto My voice,
Then the angerof the LORDwas kindledagainst Israel,so that He soldthem into the handsof Cushan-rishathaimkingof Mesopotamia;and the sonsof IsraelservedCushan-rishathaimeightyears.
