what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that is called by My name— the house in which you trust— the place that I gave you and your ancestors.I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl— wiping it and turning it upside down.
I observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce. Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to Me with all her heart— only in pretense.” This is the Lord’s declaration.The Lord announced to me,“ Unfaithful Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me:“ Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and make all the nations I am sending you to, drink from it.
Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before you behaved more corruptly than they did.“ As I live”— the declaration of the Lord God—“ your sister Sodom and her daughters have not behaved as you and your daughters have.Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, plenty of food, and comfortable security, but didn’t support the poor and needy.They were haughty and did detestable things before Me, so I removed them when I saw this.But Samaria did not commit even half your sins. You have multiplied your detestable practices beyond theirs and made your sisters appear righteous by all the detestable things you have committed.
He has carried out His words that He spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing on us so great a disaster that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done under all of heaven.