¹³ And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

¹⁹ But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

⁹ And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.

¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them.

¹⁷ In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?

¹⁰ And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? for we have not kept your laws,

³⁰ If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

³¹ If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

³² Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

⁵³ I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.

⁴ Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.

¹ Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

² She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

³ Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

⁴ Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

⁵ The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.

⁶ I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.