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Hear a word of the Lord, sons of Israel, for the Lord has a case against those who dwell on the land, because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God on the land.
Therefore the land shall mourn and shall be diminished, with all who dwell on it, with the wild animals of the field and with the creeping things of the earth and with the birds of heaven; and the fish of the sea shall fail.
My people have become like one who has no knowledge; because you rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from serving me as priest. And you forgot the law of your God; I also will forget your children.
They inquired by tokens, and by his staffs they gave report to him; by a spirit of whoredom they were led astray and played the whore, departing from their God.
On the tops of the mountains they sacrificed, and on the hills they made offerings, under oak and poplar and shady tree, because the shade was good. Therefore your daughters shall play the whore and your brides shall commit adultery.
And I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for they themselves mingled with prostitutes and sacrificed with those who had been initiated; and the people that has understanding was entangled with a prostitute.