Let thy wickedness correct thee And thine apostasies, rebuke thee, Know therefore and see That it is a wicked thing and a bitter, that thou shouldest have forsaken Yahweh thy God, And that the dread of me should not have pertained to thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

Thine own way And thine own doings, Have done these things unto thee, - This thy wickedness, Surely it is bitter, Surely it hath reached unto thy heart.

And if, my statutes, ye refuse, And, my regulations, your souls shall abhor, - So that ye will not do all my commandments, But shall break my covenant

But, if ye shall not do this, lo! ye will have sinned against Yahweh, - and take note of your sin, that it will find you out.

But it shall be, if thou do not hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, then shall come in upon thee all these curses and shall reach thee: -

So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:

Alas! a nation - committing sin, a people - burdened with iniquity, a seed - practising wickedness, sons - acting corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh despised the Holy One of Israel, - Are estranged and gone back.

It hath utterly destroyed thee, O Israel, for it was against me, as thy helper!

In that

For two wicked things, have my people committed, - Me, have they forsaken a fountain of living water, To hew out for themselves cisterns broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.

Thou, therefore, Solomon my son, Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing soul, for, all hearts, doth Yahweh search, and, every devised purpose, doth he understand, - 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 yourselves, shall turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, - and shall go and serve other gods, and bow down to them,

When he

When Yahweh, he derided, - Because his sons and his daughters gave pro-vocation.

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

Yea he led them securely, and they dreaded not, And, their enemies, the sea did cover.

And led them by a straight road, That they might journey to a city to dwell in.

To him that led his people through the desert, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.

Then were recalled the days of the age-past time Moses - his people: - Where is he that led them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he that put within him his Holy Spirit?

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Your iniquities, have thrust away these things, Yea, your sins, have withholden that which is good from you.

And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, their God, - And bowed down to other gods And served them.

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions, dealt I with them, - And so I hid my face from them.