11 When her twigs have dried up,

Women will come and break them off,

Making fires with them.

That is why their Maker will show them no mercy,

And the One who formed them will show them no favor.+

 7 Even the stork in the sky knows its seasons;*

The turtledove and the swift and the thrush* keep to the time of their return.*

Because you have rejected knowledge,+

I will also reject you from serving as my priest;

And because you have forgotten the law* of your God,+

I myself will forget your sons.