²⁵ Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.

³ So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.

²³ And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

¹⁷ Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;

³⁴ He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

² But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

¹⁷ Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?

¹⁸ And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?

¹⁹ The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

³⁹ What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

²² The punishment of your evil-doing is complete, O daughter of Zion; never again will he take you away as a prisoner: he will give you the reward of your evil-doing, O daughter of Edom; he will let your sin be uncovered.