²⁵ Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

³ Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

²³ Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

²⁴ Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

¹⁷ Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, And because of their iniquities.

³⁴ And a fruitful land into a salt waste, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

² but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

¹⁷ Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

¹⁸ Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

¹⁹ Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

³⁹ Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

²² The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.