| 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 today, 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 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 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. |
