I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’

I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the sovereign Lord.”

You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.

You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.

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

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.

I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the Lord.

He plucked off its topmost shoot; he brought it to a land of merchants and planted it in a city of traders.

so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”

I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.

“Her sister Oholibah watched this, but she became more corrupt in her lust than her sister had been, and her acts of prostitution were more numerous than those of her sister.

This is how you assessed the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples and squeezed your young breasts.

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.