1
The people increased their provocations.
2
They burned incense to strange elohim and joined violence to worship.
3
Those who possessed power took fields, houses, and goods by oppression.
4
The poor cried and found no justice.
5
The elders excused the conduct because the House still stood.
6
Yirmeyahu said, “You have made the visible House an excuse to abandon the invisible demands of the Covenant.”