²⁵ Your wrongdoings have kept these away;
    your sins have deprived you of good.^(A)

³⁴ and fruitful land into a salt waste,^(A)
    because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

¹⁷ Some became fools^(A) through their rebellious ways^(B)
    and suffered affliction^(C) because of their iniquities.

³⁹ Why should the living complain
    when punished for their sins?^(A)

³ Therefore the showers have been withheld,^(A)
    and no spring rains^(B) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen^(C) look of a prostitute;
    you refuse to blush with shame.^(D)

¹⁷ Have you not brought this on yourselves^(A)
    by forsaking^(B) the Lord your God
    when he led you in the way?
¹⁸ Now why go to Egypt^(C)
    to drink water from the Nile^[a]?^(D)
And why go to Assyria^(E)
    to drink water from the Euphrates?^(F)
19 Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding^(G) will rebuke^(H) you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter^(I) it is for you
when you forsake^(J) the Lord your God
    and have no awe^(K) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

²² Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion;^(A)
    he will not prolong your exile.
But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom,
    and expose your wickedness.^(B)