"You pursued us and killed us; your mercy was hidden by your anger,

May their path be dark and slippery while the angel of the LORD strikes them down!

If I had said such things, I would not be acting as one of your people.

He will put their kings in your power. You will kill them, and they will be forgotten. No one will be able to stop you; you will destroy everyone.

So then, when the LORD your God has given you the land and made you safe from all your enemies who live around you, be sure to kill all the Amalekites, so that no one will remember them any longer. Do not forget!

The LORD will not forgive such a man. Instead, the LORD's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the LORD has destroyed him completely.

But it was not the LORD's purpose to destroy Israel completely and forever, so he rescued them through King Jeroboam II.

(You people must tell them that the gods who did not make the earth and the sky will be destroyed. They will no longer exist anywhere on earth.)

When I look at the sky, which you have made, at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places---

Heaven belongs to the LORD alone, but he gave the earth to us humans.

The LORD says, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house, then, could you build for me, what kind of place for me to live in?