1. Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
4. Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
5. Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
7. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8. They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
9. And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
10. For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
11. Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
12. My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
13. They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
14. I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
15. Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
16. For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17. Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
18. Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
19. The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Prev 
List 
Next 377 of 538: and there
Prev 
List 
Next 43 of 63: and there shall
Prev 
List 
Next 24 of 36: and there shall be
Prev 
List 
Next 15 of 16: their iniquity and
Prev 
List 
Next 48 of 58: iniquity and
Prev 
List 
Next 150 of 215: there shall
Prev 
List 
Next 65 of 101: there shall be
Prev 
List 
Next 1919 of 2459: shall be
Prev 
List 
Next 8 of 12: shall be like
Prev 
List 
Next 24 of 28: be like
Prev 
List 
Next 3 of 3: people like
Prev 
List 
Next 80 of 100: priest and
Prev 
List 
Next 2 of 2: priest and i will
Prev 
List 
Next 928 of 1253: and i
Prev 
List 
Next 546 of 671: and i will
Prev 
List 
Next 5 of 5: and i will punish
Prev 
List 
Next 1510 of 1918: i will
Prev 
List 
Next 16 of 18: i will punish
Prev 
List 
Next 3 of 3: i will punish them
Prev 
List 
Next 17 of 20: will punish
Prev 
List 
Next 3 of 3: will punish them
Prev 
List 
Next 3 of 4: punish them
Prev 
List 
Next 124 of 165: them for
Prev 
List 
Next 4 of 4: them for their
Prev 
List 
Next 93 of 114: for their
Prev 
List 
Next 8 of 12: their ways
Prev 
List 
Next 2 of 3: their ways and
Prev 
List 
Next 48 of 56: ways and
Prev 
List 
Next 2 of 2: reward them
Prev 
List 
Next 19 of 23: them their
Prev 
List 
Next 10 of 15: their doings