²² And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.

¹ Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

²² Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

⁵⁸ They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

⁴⁷ Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.

⁴⁸ By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done.

⁷ And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.

⁸ And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.

⁹ So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

¹⁰ But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

¹¹ And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.

³ A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.

⁴ Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.

¹⁴ And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.

¹¹ Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,

¹⁹ (But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

³⁰ And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

⁹ But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.

¹ And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead.

¹² Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.

⁷ And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

¹⁶ The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

¹⁷ They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.

¹⁸ You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.

¹⁹ And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.

²⁰ And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.

²¹ They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

²⁸ Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.

²⁴ For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.