24:005:019 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth
           the lord our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou
           answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange
           gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that
           is not your’s.

24:005:020 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
           saying,

24:005:021 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;
           which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 

24:005:022 Fear ye not me? saith the lord:  will ye not tremble at my
           presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea
           by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it:  and though the
           waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail;
           though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

24:005:023 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they
           are revolted and gone.

24:005:024 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the lord our
           God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his
           season:  he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the
           harvest.

24:005:025 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins
           have withholden good things from you.

24:005:026 For among my people are found wicked men:  they lay wait, as he
           that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

24:005:027 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of
           deceit:  therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

24:005:028 They are waxen fat, they shine:  yea, they overpass the deeds
           of the wicked:  they judge not the cause, the cause of the
           fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do
           they not judge.

24:005:029 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the lord:  shall not
           my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

24:005:030 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

24:005:031 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by
           their means; and my people love to have it so:  and what will
           ye do in the end thereof?

24:006:001 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of
           the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set
           up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem:  for evil appeareth out of
           the north, and great destruction.

24:006:002 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
           woman.

24:006:003 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they
           shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall
           feed every one in his place.