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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed. They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets are

Why do you go about so much to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her lover, so you have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, declares Jehovah.

For so says Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow to the thorns.

Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskin of your heart, O men of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, that My fury not go forth like fire and burn, so that no one can put it out; because of the evil of your doings.

O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. Until when will your vain thoughts lodge within you?

For so Jehovah has said, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

So I said, Surely they are poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.

And the prophets shall become wind, and the Word is not in them; so it shall be done to them.

So Jehovah God of Hosts says this: Because you spoke this word, behold! I will make My Words fire in your mouth, and these people wood; and it shall consume them.

And it will be when you shall say, Why does Jehovah our God do all these things to us? Then you shall answer them, Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so youshall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Do you not fear Me, declares Jehovah? Will you not tremble before My face, that I have placed the sand as the limit for the sea by an eternal decree, so that it cannot cross over it? And though they toss themselves, yetthey cannot prevail; though its waves roar, yet they cannot cross over it.

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of treachery. On account of this they have become great and grown rich.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their hands; and My people love it so. And what will you do at the end of it?

For so Jehovah of Hosts has said, Cut down her trees and pour out a mound against Jerusalem. She is the city to be visited. In her midst is oppression, all of her.

As a cistern keeps fresh its waters, so she keeps fresh her evil. Violence and destruction are heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before My face.

So says Jehovah of Hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn back your hand as a grape gatherer over the tendrils.

Were they ashamed when they made an abomination? They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. At the time I visit them, they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.

So says Jehovah, Stand by the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is , and walk in it; and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it .

So hear, O nations, and know, O assembly, that which is coming on them.