Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

"What is in your mind shall never happen--the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'

"You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Gone

My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD.

Thou hast loved

And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.

But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

General references

The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.