This is what the Lord says: "Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the Lord's law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.

they lie beside every altar upon clothes taken to pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink the wine of the oppressed.

But ye carried the tent of your king-idol, and your Saturn-images, - the star of your gods, which ye made for yourselves:

[These are] those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, 'By the life of your gods, O Dan,' and 'By the life of the way of Beersheba,' they will fall and they will not rise again."