If any Israelites or any foreigners living in the community eat meat with blood still in it, the LORD will turn against them and no longer consider them his people.

I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated, and those who hate you will rule over you; you will be so terrified that you will run when no one is chasing you.

"So then, I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, will turn against you and destroy all Judah.

"Whenever one of you Israelites or one of you foreigners who live in the Israelite community turn away from me and worship idols, and then go to consult a prophet, I, the LORD, will give you your answer!

I will oppose you. I will make an example of you. I will remove you from the community of my people, so that all of you will know that I am the LORD.

If they are taken away into captivity by their enemies, I will order them to be put to death. I am determined to destroy them, not to help them."

The LORD is king forever and ever. Those who worship other gods will vanish from his land.

Their fame is ended at home and abroad; no one remembers them any more.

Good people will be remembered as a blessing, but the wicked will soon be forgotten.

Yes, I have seen the wicked buried and in their graves, but on the way back from the cemetery people praise them in the very city where they did their evil. It is useless.

LORD, you are Israel's hope; all who abandon you will be put to shame. They will disappear like names written in the dust, because they have abandoned you, the LORD, the spring of fresh water.