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Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's, will he return to her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But you have prostituted with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh.

And I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn't return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah her sister didn't fear; but she also went and prostituted.

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says Yahweh.

But I said, How I will put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! And I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

Truly, delusion comes from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: [but] truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.

But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are sottish sons, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

O Yahweh, don't your eyes look at 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.

I will get myself to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.

But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make a full end with you.

But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.

They were ashamed when they did these disgusting things. But, they did not feel ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.

Thus says Yahweh, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].

And I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not listen.

But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

And now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't answer:

but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.