¹⁶ and He giveth up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.'

² `Because that I have raised thee up out of the dust, and appoint thee leader over My people Israel, and thou walkest in the way of Jeroboam, and causest My people Israel to sin -- to provoke Me to anger with their sins;

³⁴ and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and walketh in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin that he caused Israel to sin.

³⁰ because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin, by his provocation with which he provoked to anger Jehovah, God of Israel.

³⁴ And in this thing is the sin of the house of Jeroboam, even to cut `it' off, and to destroy `it' from off the face of the ground.

³⁰ and this thing becometh a sin, and the people go before the one -- unto Dan.

¹³ no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

⁷ `Wo to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but wo to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!

¹⁶ And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

¹⁶ Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.

¹⁷ Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!

¹¹ Ephraim `is' as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.

¹² For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless -- without man, Surely also, wo to them, when I turn aside from them.

¹¹ Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.

¹² And I `am' as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.

³¹ The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved `it' so, And what do they at its latter end?

²⁴ Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.

¹² And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

³⁵ And Jehovah plagueth the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.

²¹ And Moses saith unto Aaron, `What hath this people done to thee, that thou hast brought in upon it a great sin?'