Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places if it, if ye can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth, and I will pardon her.

To what purpose does there come to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

and say thou to them, Thus says LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant,

Thou are righteous, O LORD, when I contend with thee. Yet I would reason the case with thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously?

Thus says LORD to this people: Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Hear the word of LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.

Thus says LORD who does it, LORD who forms it to establish it; LORD is his name:

Cursed be he who does the work of LORD negligently, and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.

Concerning the sons of Ammon. Thus says LORD: Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass thereby.