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OCTOBER 8
“And against your children’s children Into the degenerate plant of an alien
I will bring charges. vine?
10 For pass beyond the coasts of Cyprus 22 For though you wash yourself with lye,
and see, and use much soap,
Send to Kedar and consider diligently, Yet your iniquity is marked before Me,”
And see if there has been such a thing. says the Lord GOD.
11 Has a nation changed its gods, 23
Which are not gods? “How can you say, ‘I am not polluted,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
But My people have changed their See your way in the valley;
Glory
For what does not profit. Know what you have done:
12 Be astonished, O heavens, at this, You are a swift dromedary breaking
loose in her ways,
And be horribly afraid; 24 A wild donkey used to the wilderness,
Be very desolate,” says the LORD.
13 “For My people have committed two That sniffs at the wind in her desire;
evils: In her time of mating, who can turn
her away?
They have forsaken Me, the fountain of All those who seek her will not weary
living waters,
themselves;
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken In her month they will find her.
cisterns that can hold no water. 25 Withhold your foot from being unshod,
14 “Is Israel a servant? and your throat from thirst.
Is he a homeborn slave? But you said, ‘There is no hope.
Why is he plundered? No! For I have loved aliens, and after
15 The young lions roared at him, and them I will go.’
growled; 26
They made his land waste; “As the thief is ashamed when he is
found out,
His cities are burned, without So is the house of Israel ashamed;
inhabitant.
16 Also the people of Noph and They and their kings and their princes,
Tahpanhes 27 and their priests and their prophets,
Have broken the crown of your head. Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
17 Have you not brought this on yourself, And to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to Me,
In that you have forsaken the LORD and not their face.
your God
When He led you in the way? But in the time of their trouble
18 And now why take the road to Egypt, 28 They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’
To drink the waters of Sihor? But where are your gods that you have
made for yourselves?
Or why take the road to Assyria, Let them arise,
To drink the waters of the River?
19 Your own wickedness will correct you, If they can save you in the time of your
trouble;
And your backslidings will rebuke you. For according to the number of your
Know therefore and see that it is an cities
evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the LORD your Are your gods, O Judah.
God, 29 “Why will you plead with Me?
And the fear of Me is not in you,” You all have transgressed against Me,”
Says the Lord GOD of hosts. says the LORD.
30 “In vain I have chastened your children;
20 “For of old I have broken your yoke and
burst your bonds; They received no correction.
And you said, ‘I will not transgress,’ Your sword has devoured your
prophets
When on every high hill and under Like a destroying lion.
every green tree
You lay down, playing the harlot. 31 “O generation, see the word of the LORD!
21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
a seed of highest quality. Or a land of darkness?
How then have you turned Why do My people say, ‘We are lords;
before Me We will come no more to You’?

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