Judah's Engraved Sin Reaches Altars and Land

Sin is engraved with iron and diamond on heart and altar horns

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Heart imagery does not diagnose bodies or make wrongdoing biologically permanent. Iron and diamond describe durable practice, remembered even by children at the groves. The rhetoric concerns entrenched worship and injustice, not a medical or racial stain.

Heritage is forfeited and foreign service follows kindled anger

O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

Forfeited inheritance is this generation's sentence in the oracle, not a Christian claim that Jews have lost their place forever. Serving enemies in an unknown land must not be read onto later Jews as a standing verdict.