Wherefore the LORD waxed angry with Israel, and delivered them unto the hands of raveners to spoil them and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about them, so that they had no power any longer to stand before their enemies.

For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickedness; neither shall any evil dwell with thee.

For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and took sore displeasure at Israel,

Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance;

'You only have I accepted from all the generations of the earth: therefore will I visit you in all your wickednesses.

Three shepherds destroyed I in one month, for I might not away with them, neither had they any delight in me.

So then, because thou art between both, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth:

Abhorred them

{Vav} Her tabernacle - which was like a garden of pleasure - hath he destroyed; her high solemn feasts hath he put down. The LORD hath brought it so to pass, that the high solemn feasts and Sabbaths in Zion are clean forgotten. In his heavy displeasure hath he made the king and priests to be despised.

Of his sons

I have said, "Ye are gods, and ye are all the children of the most highest.

Hear O heaven, and hearken O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they are fallen away from me.

O thou beloved, why doest thou so shameful great blasphemies in my house? Even as though that holy flesh might absolve thee, specially when thou hast made thy boast of thy wickedness.

General references

O ye house of Israel, gave ye me offerings and sacrifices those forty years long in the wilderness?