ECB(i)
17 for in working, we work whatever comes from our own mouth, to incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and to libate libations to her as we worked - we and our fathers our sovereigns and our governors in the cities of Yah Hudah and in the outways of Yeru Shalem: for then we were satiated with bread and were good and saw no evil:
18 and since we ceased to incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and to libate libations to her, we are all in want, - consumed by the sword and by the famine:
19 and when we incensed to the sovereigness of the heavens, and libated libations to her, worked we cakes to idolize her, and libated libations to her without our men?
20 Then Yirme Yah says to all the people, - to the mighty and to the women and to all the people who answer him words, saying,
21 The incense you incensed in the cities of Yah Hudah and in the outways of Yeru Shalem - you and your fathers, your sovereigns and your governors and the people of the land remembered not Yah Veh them? and ascended it not into his heart?
22 And Yah Veh can no longer bear at the face of the evil of your exploits - and at the face of the abhorrences you worked; so your land is a parched area and a desolation and an abasement without a settler, as this day.
23 Because at the face of your incensing and because you sinned against Yah Veh, and neither hearkened to the voice of Yah Veh nor walked in his torah nor in his statutes nor in his witnesses; so this evil confronts you, as at this day.
24 Yirme Yah says to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Yah Veh, all Yah Hudah in the land of Misrayim:
25 Thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth Elohim of Yisra El, saying; You and your women both worded with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, In working, we work the vows we vowed, to incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and to libate libations to her: in raising, we raise our vows, and in working, we work our vows.