For her wounds are not curable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of My people, to Jerusalem.

For be grieved for good, the dweller of Maroth, for evil came down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for the sons of your delight; make your baldness large like the eagle; for they go into exile from you.

House of Jacob, it is said, The Spirit of Jehovah is limited, if these are His doings. Do not My words do good to him who walks uprightly?

The breaker has come up before them; they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and have gone out of it. And their king shall pass before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.

You who hate the good and love the evil; who pull their skin off them, and their flesh from their bones;

And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners ashamed; yea, they shall all cover their mustache, for there is no answer from God.

And many nations shall come and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths; for the Law shall go forth out of Zion, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

For all peoples will walk, each one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God forever and ever.

And He shall stand and feed in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah His God. And they shall sit, for now He shall be great to the ends of the earth.

Your hand shall be high above your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut off.

And it shall be in that day, says Jehovah, I will cut off your horses out of your midst, and I will destroy your chariots.

And I will cut off the cities of your land, and throw down all your strongholds.

And I will cut off sorceries out of your hand, and there shall not be fortune-tellers among you.

I will also cut off your graven images, and your pillars out of the midst of you; and you shall never again worship the work of your hands.

With what shall I come before Jehovah, to bow myself before God the Most High? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?

Therefore I will look to Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me!

Then my enemy shall see it; and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is Jehovah your God? My eyes shall behold her; now she shall be trampled like the mud of the streets.

They shall lick the dust like a snake; they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth. They shall dread Jehovah our God, and shall fear because of You.

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.