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Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children"s children will I plead.

The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.