The people say to me, "Where are those threats the LORD made against us? Let him carry them out now!"

LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I am, and you have overpowered me. Everyone makes fun of me; they laugh at me all day long.

Whenever I speak, I have to cry out and shout, "Violence! Destruction!" LORD, I am ridiculed and scorned all the time because I proclaim your message.

This is a message about Babylon, which Isaiah son of Amoz received from God.

This is a message that was proclaimed in the year that King Ahaz died.

This is a message about Nineveh, the account of a vision seen by Nahum, who was from Elkosh.

This is the message that the LORD revealed to the prophet Habakkuk.

This is the message that the LORD gave Malachi to tell the people of Israel.

I will certainly pick them up and throw them far away from me, both them and the city that I gave to them and their ancestors.

I will bring on them everlasting shame and disgrace that will never be forgotten."

The LORD says, "I have abandoned Israel; I have rejected my chosen nation. I have given the people I love into the power of their enemies.

When that happens, I will become angry with them; I will abandon them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible disasters will come upon them, and then they will realize that these things are happening to them because I, their God, am no longer with them.

And I will refuse to help them then, because they have done evil and worshiped other gods.

"When the LORD saw this, he was angry and rejected his sons and daughters.

'I will no longer help them,' he said; 'then I will see what happens to them, those stubborn, unfaithful people.

and he went to meet King Asa. He called out, "Listen to me, King Asa, and all you people of Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you as long as you are with him. If you look for him, he will let you find him, but if you turn away, he will abandon you.

God was angry when he saw it, so he rejected his people completely.

He abandoned his tent in Shiloh, the home where he had lived among us.

But even if they did bring up children, I would take them away and not leave one alive. When I abandon these people, terrible things will happen to them."