1-3. God’s Message came to me. It went like this:“Get out in the streets and call to Jerusalem,‘God’s Message!I remember your youthful loyalty,our love as newlyweds.You stayed with me through the wilderness years,stuck with me through all the hard places.Israel was God’s holy choice,the pick of the crop.Anyone who laid a hand on herwould soon wish he hadn’t!’”God’s Decree.
12-13. “Stand in shock, heavens, at what you see!Throw up your hands in disbelief—this can’t be!”God’s Decree.“My people have committed a compound sin:they’ve walked out on me, the fountainOf fresh flowing waters, and then dug cisterns—cisterns that leak, cisterns that are no better than sieves.