1. At that time, says the Lord, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his officials, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem out of their graves.
2. And they will spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered, nor be buried. They will be as dung upon the face of the earth.
3. Death will be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, which remains in all the places wherever I have driven them, says the Lord of Hosts.
4. Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Do men fall and not arise?Do they turn away and not repent?
5. Why then is this people of Jerusalemturned away by a perpetual backsliding?They hold fast to deceit;they refuse to return.
6. I listened and heard,but they did not speak what is right.No man repented of his wickedness,saying, “What have I done?”Everyone turned to his course,as the horse rushes into the battle.