1 Good people pass away;the godly often die before their time.But no one seems to care or wonder why.No one seems to understandthat God is protecting them from the evil to come.
2 For those who follow godly pathswill rest in peace when they die.
3 “But you—come here, you witches’ children,you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
4 Whom do you mock,making faces and sticking out your tongues?You children of sinners and liars!
5 You worship your idols with great passionbeneath the oaks and under every green tree.You sacrifice your children down in the valleys,among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.
6 Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys.You worship them with liquid offerings and grain offerings.They, not I, are your inheritance.Do you think all this makes me happy?