³³ When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.

¹ An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.

¹ The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

¹ An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

⁷ I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

¹ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

¹² Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

³⁹ therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

⁴⁰ and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

⁷ Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.

⁸ For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.

¹⁵ Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.

²⁸ In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

⁵⁹ When God heard this, he was angry, And greatly abhorred Israel;

⁶⁰ So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;

² and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

¹⁹ Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

²⁰ He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

¹⁷ Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?

¹⁸ I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.