As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of YHWH our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.
Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, for we have sinned against him.
“I have heard-heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are YHWH my God.
YHWH, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
Look, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.
There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek YHWH!
For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.
Because y’all have burned incense and because y’all have sinned against YHWH, and have not obeyed YHWH’s voice, or walked in ʜɪꜱ law, statutes, and testimonies, this disaster has happened to y’all, as it is today.”
“‘“Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things, I will surely will bring your way on your head,” says Lord YHWH: “and you must not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.