How should I spare thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and [a]sworn by them that are no gods: though I fed them to the full, yet they committed adultery, and assembled themselves by companies in the harlot’s houses.

They rose up in the morning like fed horses: for every man (A)neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:7 He showeth that to swear by anything than by God, is to forsake him.

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