1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards.
They don’t judge the fatherless,
Neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness,
A faithful town.’

2:1This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors,
And women rule over them.
My people, those who lead you cause you to err,
And destroy the way of your paths.

4:1Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."

5:1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard.
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

11:1There shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. ^11:2The Spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. ^11:3His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; ^11:4but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked. ^11:5Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

66:15For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. ^66:16For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.

1:13The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What see you? I said, I see a boiling caldron; and the face of it is from the north. ^1:14Then Yahweh said to me, Out of the north evil shall break forth on all the inhabitants of the land. ^1:15For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, and against all the cities of Judah. ^1:16I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands. ^1:17You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

2:31Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you? ^2:32Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number. ^2:33How trimmest you your way to seek love! Therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways. ^2:34Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things. ^2:35Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned. ^2:36Why go you about so much to change your way? You shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria. ^2:37From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.

11:18Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you shown me their doings. ^11:19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. ^11:20But, Yahweh of Hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause. ^11:21Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand; ^11:22therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; ^11:23and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

22:11For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more. ^22:12But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more. ^22:13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire; ^22:14who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion. ^22:15Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. ^22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? Says Yahweh. ^22:17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. ^22:18Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! Or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, saying Ah lord! Or, Ah his glory! ^22:19He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

5:1You, son of man, take a sharp sword; as a barber’s razor shall you take it to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair. ^5:2A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword round about it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. ^5:3You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts. ^5:4Of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

7:1Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ^7:2You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners of the land. ^7:3Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. ^7:4My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. ^7:5Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes. ^7:6An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes. ^7:7Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains. ^7:8Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. ^7:9My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike.

11:5The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus have you said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind. ^11:6You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the streets of it with the slain. ^11:7Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it. ^11:8You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh. ^11:9I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. ^11:10You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. ^11:11This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you in the border of Israel; ^11:12and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.

14:21For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal! ^14:22Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it. ^14:23They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.

16:35Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh: ^16:36Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them; ^16:37therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. ^16:38I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. ^16:39I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare. ^16:40They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. ^16:41They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more. ^16:42So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. ^16:43Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

22:1Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ^22:2You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations. ^22:3You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her! ^22:4You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries. ^22:5Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one and full of tumult. ^22:6Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. ^22:7In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. ^22:8You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. ^22:9Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness. ^22:10In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. ^22:11One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. ^22:12In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh. ^22:13Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you. ^22:14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it. ^22:15I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you. ^22:16You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

23:36Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. ^23:37For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured. ^23:38Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths. ^23:39For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house. ^23:40Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and, behold, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck yourself with ornaments, ^23:41and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you did set my incense and my oil. ^23:42The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of them twain, and beautiful crowns on their heads. ^23:43Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she with them. ^23:44They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

23:45Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. ^23:46For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed. ^23:47The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. ^23:48Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. ^23:49They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.