Do they provoke Me to anger? Says the Lord. Do they not [provoke] themselves, that their faces may be ashamed?

But you hearkened not to Me.

that you have wrought wickedness in your hearts, when you sent for me, saying, Pray for us to the Lord; and according to all that the Lord shall speak to you we will do.

of these sinners against their own souls, and make for them hammered plates as a covering for the altar, because they were brought before the Lord and hallowed; and they became a sign to the children of Israel.

For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.

Iniquities ensnare a man, and everyone is bound in the chains of his own sins.

But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls, and they that hate me love death.

He that rejects instruction hates himself, but he who heeds rebuke loves his soul.

Say to them, Thus says the Lord: [As] I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn heartily from your way; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned.

by provoking Me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you entered to dwell there, that you might be cut off, and that you might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I set My face against [you],

For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants outside, and the young men from the streets.

And by you I will scatter youth and maid; and by you I will scatter man and woman.

And Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and woman, young man and old, and calf and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

And this shall you do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with a man you shall devote to [destruction], but the virgins you shall save alive: and they did so.

Outside, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror [shall issue] out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.

And now go, and you shall strike Amalek and Hierim and all that belongs to him, and you shall not save anything of his alive, but you shall utterly destroy him. And you shall devote him and all his [to destruction], and you shall spare nothing belonging to him; and you shall slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, calf and sheep, camel and donkey.

And he struck Nob, the city of the priest, with the edge of the sword, both man and woman, infant and suckling, calf and ox, and also sheep.

CHAPH. My eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed, small and great; and they shall be for a reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.

And there shall not one be preserved of the remnant of Judah that sojourn in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Judah, to which they hope in their hearts to return. They shall not return, but only they that escape.

For I have watched over them, to hurt them, and not to do them good. And all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt shall perish by sword and by famine, until they are utterly consumed.

And they that escape the sword shall return to the land of Judah few in number, and the remnant of Judah, who have continued in the land [of] Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand.