Ezekiel 15

1 Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange nation. 2 We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to God, are made known to us. 3 Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel: 4 You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries. 5 For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God. 6 For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you. 7 For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning: 8 For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.