So says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

Is Israel a servant? Or is he a servant of the house? Why has he become a prey?

And the prophets shall become wind, and the Word is not in them; so it shall be done to them.

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.

They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.

We have heard the rumor of it; our hands become feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, like a woman in labor.

Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I also have seen, says Jehovah.

For the pastors have become stupid, and have not sought Jehovah, therefore they shall not be blessed, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

But if you will not hear these Words, I swear by Myself, says Jehovah, that this house shall become a ruin.

Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house like the high places of a forest.

Take wives and father sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may be multiplied there and not become few.

For I have sworn by Myself, says Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become a ruin, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be wastes forever.

Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee, and trembling has seized her. Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.

How the hammer of the whole earth is cut off and broken! How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations!

A sword is on the liars, and they shall become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be afraid.

A sword is on their horses and their chariots, and on all the mixed people in her midst; and they shall become as women. A sword is to her treasuries, and they shall be robbed.

And Babylon shall become heaps, a home for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

How Sheshach is captured! And how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!