Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious.
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that H
All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look,
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, he
And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts
So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule,
Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”
Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her i
For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zio
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would w
When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an ene
I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in
therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated.
I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.
“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it
They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of
So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you w
And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egyp
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its suppl
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackclo
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have s