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And they will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you," declares Yahweh.

Has a nation changed godsThough they were not gods?But My people have changed their gloryFor that which does not profit.

But now what are you doing on the road to Egypt,To drink the waters of the Nile?Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria,To drink the waters of the River?

"For long ago I broke your yokeAnd tore off your bonds;But you said, ‘I will not serve!'For on every high hillAnd under every green treeYou have lain down as a harlot.

Keep your feet from being barefootAnd your throat from thirst;But you said, ‘It is hopeless!No! For I have loved strangers,And after them I will walk.'

Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,'And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.'For they have turned their back to MeAnd not their face;But in the time when their evil comes they will say,‘Arise and save us.'

But where are your godsWhich you made for yourself?Let them arise, if they can save youIn the time when your evil comes;For according to the number of your citiesAre your gods, O Judah.

God says, "If a husband divorces his wifeAnd she goes from himAnd belongs to another man,Will he still return to her?Will not that land be completely polluted?But you are a harlot with many lovers;Yet you turn to Me," declares Yahweh.

I said, ‘After she has done all these things, she will return to Me'; but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.

Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in lying," declares Yahweh.

"But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

"For My people are ignorant fools,They know Me not;They are simpleminded childrenAnd have no understanding.They are wise to do evil,But to do good they do not know."

O Yahweh, do not Your eyes look for faithfulness?You have struck them,But they did not weaken;You have consumed them,But they refused to receive discipline.They have made their faces stronger than rock;They have refused to repent.

Let me go to the greatAnd let me speak to them,For they know the way of YahwehAnd the legal judgment of their God."But they too, altogether, have broken the yokeAnd torn apart the bonds.

"Go up through her vine rows and make them a ruin,But do not make a complete destruction;Remove her branches,For they are not Yahweh's.

‘Now hear this, O people who are simpleminded fools and without a heart of wisdom,Who have eyes but do not see,Who have ears but do not hear.

But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;They have turned aside and gone away.

The prophets prophesy with lying,And the priests have dominion by their own hand;And My people love it so!But what will you do at the end of it?

But I am full of the wrath of Yahweh;I am weary of holding it in."Pour it out on the infants in the streetAnd on the gathering of choice men together;For both husband and wife shall be captured,The aged with the one full of days.