⁵ All this is for ^(A)the transgression of Jacob
    and for the sins of the house of Israel.
^(B)What is the transgression of Jacob?
    Is it not ^(C)Samaria?
And what is ^(D)the high place of Judah?
    Is it not Jerusalem?

¹⁴ Those who swear by ^(A)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As ^(B)the Way of ^(C)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”

^19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
    and ^(B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and ^(C)bitter
    for ^(D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

^16 (A)The crown has fallen from our head;
    woe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁹ Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people,
    ^(A)the fruit of their devices,
because they have not paid attention to my words;
    and as for my law, they have rejected it.

¹⁸ Your ways and your deeds
    have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and ^(A)it is bitter;
    it has reached your very heart.”

^17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when ^(B)he led you in the way?

59 Behold, ^(A)the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,
    or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
^2 (B)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.
^3 (C)For your hands are defiled with blood
    and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
    your tongue mutters wickedness.
^4 (D)No one enters suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
    ^(E)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
⁵ They hatch adders' eggs;
    they weave the spider's web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
    and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
^6 (F)Their webs will not serve as clothing;
    men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
    and deeds of violence are in their hands.
^7 (G)Their feet run to evil,
    and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.
⁸ The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked;
    ^(H)no one who treads on them knows peace.

^14 (O)Justice is turned back,
    and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
    and uprightness cannot enter.
¹⁵ Truth is lacking,
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.