²⁵ Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they should not live;

¹² My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth to them: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they have gone astray from under their God.

¹ Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.