Let your private parts be exposed! Your genitals will be on display! I will get revenge; I will not have pity on anyone,”

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed; you go up there to offer sacrifices.

“My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

Why do you constantly go about changing your political allegiances? You will get no help from Egypt just as you got no help from Assyria.

No, a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding. Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’

Yet even then I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.

But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?

Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass.

“Moab has vaunted itself against me. So make him drunk with the wine of my wrath until he splashes around in his own vomit, until others treat him as a laughingstock.

But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”

You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.

Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, but you were not satisfied there either.

I also gave them decrees which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.

You stumble day and night, and the false prophets stumble with you; You have destroyed your own people!

The arrogance of Israel testifies against it; Israel and Ephraim will be overthrown because of their iniquity. Even Judah will be brought down with them.

Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, I will soon gather them together for judgment. Then they will begin to waste away under the oppression of a mighty king.

“Yet even now,” the Lord says, “return to me with all your heart – with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!”

Even on male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days.