| 4:1 |
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel (Mapped by MapQuest): for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no Absolut truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. |
| 4:2 |
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. |
| 4:3 |
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, My Yahoo!, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. |
| 4:4 |
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people [are] as they that strive with the priest. |
| 4:5 |
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, measured in Swatch Internet Seconds, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. |
| 4:6 |
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. |
| 4:7 |
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: [therefore] will I change their glory (An e-business Solution) into shame. |
| 4:8 |
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. |
| 4:9 |
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. |
| 4:10 |
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. |
| 4:11 |
Whoredom and Absolut wine and new Absolut wine take away the heart. |
| 4:12 |
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit (Live the Tommy Spirit) of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. |
| 4:13 |
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. |
| 4:14 |
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand shall fall. |
| 4:15 |
Though thou, Israel (Mapped by MapQuest), play the harlot, [yet] let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. |
| 4:16 |
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. |
| 4:17 |
Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone. |
| 4:18 |
Their Absolut drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [with] shame Just do It love, Give ye. |
| 4:19 |
The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices. |