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  • God’s Charge Against Israel

    Hear the word of the Lord,
    You children of Israel,
    For the Lord brings a charge[a] against the inhabitants of the land:
    “There is no truth or mercy
    Or knowledge of God in the land.
  • God's Charges against Israel

    Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
  • By swearing and lying,
    Killing and stealing and committing adultery,
    They break all restraint,
    With bloodshed [b]upon bloodshed.
  • By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
  • Therefore the land will mourn;
    And everyone who dwells there will waste away
    With the beasts of the field
    And the birds of the air;
    Even the fish of the sea will be taken away.
  • Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
  • “Now let no man contend, or rebuke another;
    For your people are like those who contend with the priest.
  • Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
  • Therefore you shall stumble in the day;
    The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night;
    And I will destroy your mother.
  • Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
  • My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
    Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
    Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I also will forget your children.
  • My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
  • “The more they increased,
    The more they sinned against Me;
    I[c] will change [d]their glory into shame.
  • As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
  • They eat up the sin of My people;
    They set their [e]heart on their iniquity.
  • They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
  • And it shall be: like people, like priest.
    So I will punish them for their ways,
    And [f]reward them for their deeds.
  • And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
  • For they shall eat, but not have enough;
    They shall commit harlotry, but not increase;
    Because they have ceased obeying the Lord.
  • For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
  • The Idolatry of Israel

    “Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.
  • Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
  • My people ask counsel from their wooden idols,
    And their [g]staff informs them.
    For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,
    And they have played the harlot against their God.
  • My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
  • They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops,
    And burn incense on the hills,
    Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
    Because their shade is good.
    Therefore your daughters commit harlotry,
    And your brides commit adultery.
  • They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
  • “I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry,
    Nor your brides when they commit adultery;
    For the men themselves go apart with harlots,
    And offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot.
    Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled.
  • I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
  • “Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
    Let not Judah offend.
    Do not come up to Gilgal,
    Nor go up to Beth[h] Aven,
    Nor swear an oath, saying, ‘As the Lord lives’ —
  • Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
  • “For Israel is stubborn
    Like a stubborn calf;
    Now the Lord will let them forage
    Like a lamb in [i]open country.
  • For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
  • “Ephraim is joined to idols,
    Let him alone.
  • Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
  • Their drink [j]is rebellion,
    They commit harlotry continually.
    Her [k]rulers [l]dearly love dishonor.
  • Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
  • The wind has wrapped her up in its wings,
    And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
  • The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

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