Hear a word of the Lord, sons of Israel, because the Lord has a judgment against the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God on the land.
Therefore the land shall mourn and be diminished, with all who dwell in it, with the beasts of the field and with the creeping things of the earth and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail.
My people have become like one having no knowledge, because you have rejected knowledge; and I will reject you from serving as priest to me, and you have forgotten the law of your God, and I will forget your children.
And they shall eat and shall not at all be filled; they committed whoredom and shall not at all prosper, because they have forsaken the Lord to keep watch.
By their tokens they were inquiring, and by their rods they were reporting to him; by a spirit of harlotry they were led astray, and they committed harlotry away from their God
On the tops of the mountains they were sacrificing, and on the hills they were offering under oak and poplar and tree giving shade, because its shelter is good; therefore your daughters will commit fornication, and your daughters-in-law will commit adultery.
And I will surely not visit upon your daughters when they fornicate, and upon your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because they themselves also were mingled with the prostitutes, and with the initiated ones they sacrificed, and the people who understand were entwined with a prostitute.