³³ And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? then shalt thou say unto them, What burden! I will cast you off, saith Jehovah.

¹ The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.

¹ The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

¹ The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

⁷ I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

¹ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

¹² Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

³⁹ therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

⁴⁰ and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

⁷ O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.

⁸ For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.

¹⁵ Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now.

²⁸ In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

⁵⁹ When God heard `this', he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

⁶⁰ So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;

² and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

¹⁹ And Jehovah saw `it', and abhorred `them', Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

²⁰ And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

¹⁷ Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?

¹⁸ And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.