And the Lord says: “Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it,
“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
And they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”
“And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city! She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the Lord; she does not draw near to her God. Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning. Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law. The Lord within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.
Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law.
If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules, if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes,
And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them. Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’
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