¹⁶ For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.

³³ And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

⁷ My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

⁷ Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

⁵ Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

²⁴ But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.

⁶ And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

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

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.

⁶ And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

¹⁸ Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!

²¹ And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;

²² And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

²³ And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

²⁴ Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.

²⁵ And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

¹⁷ Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

¹¹ It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.

¹¹ But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;