CHAP. IV.
God's judgments against the sins
of Israel: Juda is warned
not to follow their example.
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 note 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,
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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
shall 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 note 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.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
