Your own evil will discipline you;
your own apostasies will reprimand you.
Think it over and see how evil and bitter it is
for you to abandon the Lord your God
and to have no fear of Me.
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.

Your way of life and your actions
have brought this on you.
This is your punishment. It is very bitter,
because it has reached your heart!

if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant,

But if you don’t do this, you will certainly sin against the Lord; be sure your sin will catch up with you.

“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all His commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:

In my experience, those who plow injustice
and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Oh sinful nation,
people weighed down with iniquity,
brood of evildoers,
depraved children!
They have abandoned the Lord;
they have despised the Holy One of Israel;
they have turned their backs on Him.

I will destroy you, Israel;
you have no help but Me.

In that

For My people have committed a double evil:
They have abandoned Me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.

“As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

However, if you turn away and abandon My statutes and My commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,

When he

When the Lord saw this, He despised them,
provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

You led Your people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

He led them safely, and they were not afraid;
but the sea covered their enemies.

He led them by the right path
to go to a city where they could live.

He led His people in the wilderness.
His love is eternal.

Then He remembered the days of the past,
the days of Moses and his people.
Where is He who brought them out of the sea
with the shepherds of His flock?
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit among the flock?

General references

Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.
Your sins have withheld My bounty from you,

They will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God and worshiped and served other gods.’”

I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.