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The Unfaithfulness of Contemporary Israel
The Unfaithfulness of Contemporary Israel
- 9 [fn] I again bring a lawsuit against you,” [fn] Yahweh, “and with[fn] I bring a lawsuit.
- 10 to the coasts of Cyprus and look, and send to Kedar and consider very closely,
- and see if there has been a thing like this:
- 11 are not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.
- 12 O heavens, at this, and shudder; be utterly desolate,”[fn] Yahweh.
- 13 they have forsaken me, the source[fn] of living water,
- to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.
- 14 Is Israel a slave? Or[fn] Why has he become plunder?
- 15 The young lions have roared against him, they have[fn] their voices.[fn]
- And they have made his land as horror;
- his cities are destroyed,[fn] an inhabitant.
- 16 will[fn] your skull.[fn]
- 17 by forsaking Yahweh, your God,
- at the time of your leading in the way?
- 18 [fn] the way of Egypt to drink the waters of the Shihor?
- And[fn] the way of Assyria
- to drink the waters of the[fn]
- 19 and your apostasies will reprove you.
- Therefore know and see that it is evil and bitter,
- your forsaking of Yahweh, your God,
- and fear of me is not in you,”
- [fn] the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
- 20 you tore to pieces your bonds.
- And you said, ‘I will not serve!’
- But on every high hill and under every leafy tree
- you were lying down as a prostitute.
- 21 as a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness.
- How then have you altered before me
- into something that is degenerate, the foreign vine?
- 22 and you[fn]
- your guilt is sticking as a stain[fn] me,”
- [fn] the Lord Yahweh.
- 23 I have not gone after the Baals?’
- Look at your way in the valley,
- You are a young she-camel,
- interweaving her ways.
- 24 the desert,[fn] in the desire of her soul.
- She gasps for wind in her rutting time.
- Who can quell[fn] her lust?
- All those who seek her will not grow weary,
- in her month they will find her.
- 25 being barefoot, and your throat from thirst.
- But you said, ‘ It is hopeless.
- No! For I have loved strangers,
- and after them I will go.’[fn]
- 26 the shame of a thief when he is caught in the act, so the house of Israel will be ashamed.
- They, their kings, their officials,
- and their priests, and their prophets.
- 27 Those who say to the tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to the stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
- For they have turned their[fn] to me, and not their faces.
- But in the time of their trouble they say, ‘Arise and save us.’
- 28 are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise if they can save you in the time of your trouble.
- For according to the number of your towns
- are your gods, O Judah.
- 29 All of you have[fn] [fn] Yahweh.
- 30 [fn] I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline.
- Your sword devoured your prophets,
- like a ravening[fn] lion.
- 31 Have I been a desert[fn] to Israel? Or a land of great darkness?
- Why do my people say, ‘We roam about freely,
- we will not come again to you’?
- 32 [fn] Or a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
- 33 on your way to seek love![fn] even to the wicked woman you can teach your ways.
- 34 the blood of the life of the innocent, the poor.
- You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house.
- But in spite of all these things,
- 35 surely his anger has turned away from me.’
- Look, I am entering into judgment with you
- because of your saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
- 36 Also by Egypt you will be put to shame,
- just as you were put to shame by Assyria.
- 37 with your hands on your head,
- for Yahweh has rejected[fn]
- and you will not prosper through them.
- and she goes from him[fn]
- will he return to her again?’
- Will not that land be greatly defiled?
- And you have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
- would you now return to me?”[fn] Yahweh.
- 2 the barren heights, and see where you have not been ravished.
- Beside the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the desert,[fn]
- and you have defiled the land
- with your fornication
- and with your wickedness.
- 3 and the spring rain has not come.
- Yet[fn] the forehead of a woman prostitute,
- you refuse to be ashamed.
- 4 ‘My father, you are the close friend of my youth?
- 5 [fn] Will he maintain it[fn]
- Look, you have spoken,
- but you have done all the evil that you could.”[fn]
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