¹⁵⁸ I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

²⁵ But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.

²⁴ Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

⁴ And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.