The Coming Destruction

Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste, for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth-le-aphrah roll yourselves in the dust.

In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.”

I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.

the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.

Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,

For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.

Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.

and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;

For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.”

The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;

He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.