The sin of Judah is written with an iron pointel, in a nail of adamant; it is written on the breadth of the heart of them, and in the horns of the altars of them.
And a man shall no more teach his neighbour, and a man his brother, and say, Know thou the Lord; for all shall know me, from the least of them unto the most, saith the Lord; for I shall be merciful to the wickednesses of them, and I shall no more be mindful on the sin of them.
Whether not the sacrifices which ye sacrificed in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, stirred God to vengeance? The Lord had mind on these things, and it ascended [or went up] on his heart;
And lest they say in their hearts, that I have mind on all the malice of them, now their findings have encom-passed them, those be made before my face.
They shall bring sacrifices, they shall offer, and eat fleshes; and the Lord shall not receive those [or them]. Now he shall have mind on the wickednesses of them, and he shall visit the sins of them; they shall turn into Egypt.
The Lord God swore in his soul, saith the Lord God of hosts, I loathe the pride of Jacob, and I hate the houses of him, and I shall betake the city with his dwellers;