“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you,”
says the Lord, GOD of Armies.
“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds.
You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed.
How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?