I will do this to capture the minds and hearts of all my people who have turned from me to worship their detestable idols.’

好在以色列家的心事上捉住他们，因为他们都藉着假神与我生疏。’

为要夺回以色列家的心，他们全都拜偶像，与我疏远了。’

为要夺回以色列家的心，他们全都拜偶像，与我疏远了。’

好夺回以色列人的心，他们因为拜偶像而远离我。’

好夺回以色列家的心。他们众人因自己的偶像，与我疏远。’

好在以色列家的心事上捉住他們，因為他們都藉着假神與我生疏。』

為要奪回以色列家的心，他們全都拜偶像，與我疏遠了。』

為要奪回以色列家的心，他們全都拜偶像，與我疏遠了。』

好奪回以色列人的心，他們因為拜偶像而遠離我。』

好奪回以色列家的心。他們眾人因自己的偶像，與我疏遠。’

好就以色列家的心去捉住他們，因為他們都藉着他們的偶像而跟我疏遠。

以以色列家之心欲而獲之、因其崇事偶像、而疏遠我、

使以色列族內自訟、因其背我、崇敬偶像。

欲露露或作闡明以色列族之心意、原文作欲執以色列族於心中因彼俱離棄我、崇拜偶像、

I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols.’

I will win back the hearts of the people of Israel. All of them have deserted me for their other gods.” ’

that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.

so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from me because of their idols.’

in order to take hold of the hearts of the house of Israel who have turned away from Me due to all their idols.” ’

that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols.”’

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from Me because of their idols.

That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’

I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month. But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.

Oh, what a sinful nation they are— loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are evil people, corrupt children who have rejected the Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.

They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents.

For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.

Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.

Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him.

Don’t be misled— you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant.

“ O my people, listen to the words of the Lord! Have I been like a desert to Israel? Have I been to them a land of darkness? Why then do my people say,‘ At last we are free from God! We don’t need him anymore!’Does a young woman forget her jewelry, or a bride her wedding dress? Yet for years on end my people have forgotten me.

This is what the Lord says:“ What did your ancestors find wrong with me that led them to stray so far from me? They worshiped worthless idols, only to become worthless themselves.

“ But Israel soon became fat and unruly; the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed! Then they abandoned the God who had made them; they made light of the Rock of their salvation.They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods; they provoked his fury with detestable deeds.

The hearts of the people are fickle; they are guilty and must be punished. The Lord will break down their altars and smash their sacred pillars.

“‘ And if a prophet is deceived into giving a message, it is because I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet. I will lift my fist against such prophets and cut them off from the community of Israel.False prophets and those who seek their guidance will all be punished for their sins.

Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones, even though they are not gods at all? Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols!The heavens are shocked at such a thing and shrink back in horror and dismay,” says the Lord.“ For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me— the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!

This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions.

Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.

“ Your ancestors refused to listen to this message. They stubbornly turned away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the instructions or the messages that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the Lord of Heaven’s Armies was so angry with them.“ Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.As with a whirlwind, I scattered them among the distant nations, where they lived as strangers. Their land became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned their pleasant land into a desert.”

This man will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles.He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them.So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies.

Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.