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The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what King Manasseh son of Hezekiah of Judah did in Jerusalem.

then you shall say to them: It is because your ancestors have forsaken me, says the Lord , and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law;

and because you have behaved worse than your ancestors, for here you are, every one of you, following your stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me.

And I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.

Because the people have forsaken me, and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent,

And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am now bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks, refusing to hear my words.

because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.

O house of David! Thus says the Lord : Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed, or else my wrath will go forth like fire, and burn, with no one to quench it, because of your evil doings.

And they will answer, "Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them."

Are you a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and dismayed because of all your wickedness.

Concerning the prophets: My heart is crushed within me, all my bones shake; I have become like a drunkard, like one overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of his holy words.

For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course has been evil, and their might is not right.

But if you say, "the burden of the Lord ," thus says the Lord : Because you have said these words, "the burden of the Lord ," when I sent to you, saying, You shall not say, "the burden of the Lord ,"

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,

They shall drink and stagger and go out of their minds because of the sword that I am sending among them.

Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, get drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.

and the peaceful folds are devastated, because of the fierce anger of the Lord .