I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High.
O ye seed of Abraham his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.
Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, (and) not pitied.
we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances;