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.

And on pledged garments they stretch themselves near every altar, And the wine of fined ones they drink in the house of their gods.

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."