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For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see,And send to Kedar and perceive closelyAnd see if there has been such a thing as this!

"For My people have done two evils:They have forsaken Me,The fountain of living waters,To hew for themselves cisterns,Broken cisternsThat can hold no water.

"For long ago I broke your yokeAnd tore off your bonds;But you said, ‘I will not serve!'For on every high hillAnd under every green treeYou have lain down as a harlot.

Keep your feet from being barefootAnd your throat from thirst;But you said, ‘It is hopeless!No! For I have loved strangers,And after them I will walk.'

Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,'And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.'For they have turned their back to MeAnd not their face;But in the time when their evil comes they will say,‘Arise and save us.'

But where are your godsWhich you made for yourself?Let them arise, if they can save youIn the time when your evil comes;For according to the number of your citiesAre your gods, O Judah.

From this place also you will go outWith your hands on your head;For Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust,And you will not succeed with them."

"Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see;Where have you not been ravished?By the roads you have sat for themLike an Arab in the wilderness,And you have polluted a landWith your harlotry and with your evil.

And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.

‘Return, O faithless sons,' declares Yahweh;‘For I am a master to you,And I will take you one from a city and two from a family,And I will bring you to Zion.'

At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of Yahweh,' and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of Yahweh; nor will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

"Return, O faithless sons;I will heal your faithlessness.""Behold, we come to You,For You are Yahweh our God.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not listened to the voice of Yahweh our God."

For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,"Break up your fallow ground,And do not sow among thorns.

Lift up a standard toward Zion!Seek safety, do not stand still,For I am bringing evil from the north,And great destruction.

For this, I gird myself with sackcloth,Lament and wail;For the burning anger of YahwehHas not turned back from us."

a wind too full for these things—will come for My purpose; now I will also speak judgments against them.

Behold, he goes up like clouds,And his chariots like the whirlwind;His horses are swifter than eagles.Woe to us, for we are devastated!"

For a voice declares from Dan,And makes wickedness heard from Mount Ephraim.

Destruction upon destruction is called out,For the whole land is devastated;Suddenly my tents are devastated,My curtains in an instant.