17
For your songs and proverbs and parables, and for your interpretations, the countries marveled at you.
18
In the name of the Lord God, who is called the God of Israel, you gathered gold like tin and amassed silver like lead.
19
But you laid your loins beside women, and through your body you were brought into subjection.
20
You put stain upon your honor, and defiled your posterity, so that you brought wrath upon your children and they were grieved at your folly,
21
so that the sovereignty was divided and a disobedient kingdom arose out of Ephraim.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.