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

⁴⁰ Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

²⁰ Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

²¹ I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."

²³ You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

⁴⁴ Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;

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

⁴ Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

² Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there were any who did understand, Who did seek after God.

³ They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on Yahweh?

⁵ There they were in great fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous.

⁷ The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

⁸ I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.