O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your iniquity.

For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations which the LORD carried away before them; and did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

But whosoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

The look on their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil unto themselves.

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be done to him.

Have you not brought this unto yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?

Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: This has been by your gift: will he regard your persons? says the LORD of hosts.

Yet I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt, and you shall know no god but me: for there is no savior besides me.

There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rides upon the heaven to your help, and in his excellency on the clouds.

Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah. A song upon alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

A song of ascents. I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from which comes my help.

My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;

That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.