¹⁴ And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

³ Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:

⁴⁸ So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

³¹ So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

³² Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.

³³ You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

²¹ But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.

⁶ See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,

⁷ For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.

⁴ Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

⁴ O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

⁵⁷ Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

⁴ If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

¹⁸ Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.

²⁴ So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

²⁵ And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

²⁶ But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

¹⁰ And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.

¹³ And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

¹⁴ Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

³⁴ And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

³⁵ Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,

²¹ And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

⁵¹ You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

⁵² Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;