⁹ you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and ^(A)have gone and made for yourself other gods and ^(B)molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have ^(C)cast Me behind your back—

² “Inasmuch as I ^(A)exalted you from the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, and ^(B)you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My people Israel sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,

¹⁷ Yahweh of hosts, who ^(A)planted you, has ^(B)spoken forth evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have ^[a]done to provoke Me to anger by ^(C)burning incense to Baal.

¹⁷ He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to do the abominations which they have done here, that they have ^(A)filled the land with violence and ^(B)provoked Me to anger still more? For behold, they are sending forth the twig to their nose.