they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses. 005:008 They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife. 005:009 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 005:010 Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's. 005:011 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says Yahweh. 005:012 They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 005:013 and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them. 005:014 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. 005:015 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say. 005:016 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men. 005:017 They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword. 005:018 But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make a full end with you. 005:019 It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours. 005:020 Declare you this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 005:021 Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear: 005:022 Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it. 005:023 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 005:024 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. 005:025 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.