²⁵ Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.

³ And withheld are showers, and gathered rain hath not been. The forehead of a whorish woman thou hast, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.

²³ `And thy heavens which `are' over thy head have been brass, and the earth which `is' under thee iron;

²⁴ Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land -- dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed.

¹⁷ Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

³⁴ A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

² But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.

¹⁷ Dost thou not do this to thyself? `By' thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?

¹⁸ And now, what -- to thee in the way of Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? And what -- to thee in the way of Asshur, To drink the waters of the River?

¹⁹ Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing `Is' thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

³⁹ What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?

²² Completed `is' thy iniquity, daughter of Zion, He doth not add to remove thee, He hath inspected thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom, He hath removed `thee' because of thy sins!