^{10 Ref} For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;

^{11 Ref} for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.

^{12 Ref} Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.

^{13 Ref} And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

^{14 Ref} In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.