Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reacheth unto thy heart.

and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against Jehovah; and be sure your sin will find you out.

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.

It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help.

In that

For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

When he

And Jehovah saw it , and abhorred them , Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

Thou leddest thy people like a flock, By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation.

To him that led his people through the wilderness; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever:

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people,'saying , Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?

General references

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.

Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I unto them; and I hid my face from them.