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chapter 4
1
Hear
the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into
judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is
no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land.
2 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and
adultery have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that
dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls
of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.
4 But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be
rebuked: for thy people are as they that contradict the priest.
5 And thou shalt fall to day, and the prophet also
shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.
6 My people have been silent, because they had no
knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou
shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of
thy God, I also will forget thy children.
7 According to the multitude of them so have they
sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.
8 They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift
up their souls to their iniquity.
9 And there shall be like people like priest: and I
will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.
10 And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they
have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the
Lord in not observing his law.
11 Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness take away the
understanding.
12 My people have consulted their stocks, and their
staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived
them, and they have committed fornication against their God.
13 They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the
mountains, and burnt incense upon the hills: under the oak, and the poplar, and
the turpentine tree, because the shadow thereof was good: therefore shall your
daughters commit fornication, and your spouses shall be adulteresses.
14 I will not visit upon your daughters when they shell
commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery:
because themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with the
effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be beaten.
15 If thou play the harlot, O Israel, at least let not
Juda offend: and go ye not into Galgal, and come not up into Bethaven, and do
not swear: The Lord liveth.
16 For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer:
now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.
17 Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.
18 Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by
fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame
upon them.
19 The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they
shall be confounded because of their sacrifices.
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