You are bound for judgment<n id="1" /> because you are robbing me &#8211; this whole nation is guilty.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do you fix your eye<n id="1" /> on such a one?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">And do you bring me<n id="3" /> before you for judgment?p>

Moreover, at that same time the <sc>Lordsc> commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess.<n id="1" />p>

You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.<n id="1" />

They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest;<n id="1" /> you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me,<n id="2" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />p>

He said to his mother, &#8220;You know<n id="1" /> the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen<n id="2" /> from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole<n id="3" /> it, but now I am giving it back to you.&#8221;<n id="4" /> His mother said, &#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc> reward<n id="5" /> you, my son!&#8221;

<p class="poetry">And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you accomplish nothing<n id="2" /> by wearing a beautiful dress,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">decking yourself out in jewels of gold,p> <p class="poetry">and putting on eye shadow!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">You are making yourself beautiful for nothing.p> <p class="poetry">Your lovers spurn you.p> <p class="poetry">They want to kill you.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows.p> <p class="poetry">Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They have become powerful in the land,p> <p class="poetry">but they have not done so by honest means.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, they do one evil thing after another<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and do not pay attention to me.<n id="5" />p>

Then tell them that the <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" /> &#8216;It is because your ancestors<n id="2" /> rejected me and paid allegiance to<n id="3" /> other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will punish her for the festival daysp> <p class="poetry">when she burned incense to the Baal idols;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry,p> <p class="poetry">and went after her lovers,p> <p class="poetry">but<n id="2" /> she forgot me!&#8221;<n id="3" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>