^25 (A)Your iniquities have turned these away,
    and your sins have kept good from you.

^2 (A)but your iniquities have made a separation
    between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
    so that he does not hear.

^34 (A)a fruitful land into a salty waste,
    because of the evil of its inhabitants.

^39 (A)Why should a living man complain,
    a man, about the punishment of his sins?

^3 (A)Therefore the showers have been withheld,
    and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have ^(B)the forehead of a whore;
    you refuse to be ashamed.

^17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when ^(B)he led you in the way?
^18 (C)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
    to drink the waters of ^(D)the Nile?
^(E)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
    to drink the waters of ^(F)the Euphrates?^[a]
19 (G)Your evil will chastise you,
    and ^(H)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and ^(I)bitter
    for ^(J)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.