¹⁴ And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

⁸ And on pledged garments they stretch themselves near every altar, And the wine of fined ones they drink `in' the house of their gods.

⁵ `Speak unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying:

¹¹ If one is going `with' the wind, And `with' falsehood hath lied: `I prophesy to thee of wine, and of strong drink,' He hath been the prophet of this people!

¹⁰ And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of Jehovah.'

⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

¹⁰ And none said, `Where `is' God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

²⁷ and go out into the field, and gather their vineyards, and tread, and make praises, and go into the house of their god, and eat and drink, and revile Abimelech.

¹ Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you';

³ ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.

¹⁹ whose end `is' destruction, whose god `is' the belly, and whose glory `is' in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

¹⁸ for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,

³ And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many `are' the carcases, into any place throw -- hush!

¹⁶ Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!

¹ And Jehovah saith unto me: `Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'

¹⁴ Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl.

⁵ And now, what -- to Me here, An affirmation of Jehovah, That taken is My people for nought? Its rulers cause howling, -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And continually all the day My name is despised.

¹³ And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!

³⁴ If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,

³⁵ And they remember that God `is' their rock, And God Most High their redeemer.

³⁶ And -- they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him,

³⁷ And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.

⁶ and they rise early on the morrow, and cause burnt-offerings to ascend, and bring nigh peace-offerings; and the people sit down to eat and to drink, and rise up to play.