And as for the heart [set upon] their abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went [after them], I have recompensed their ways on their heads, says the Lord.

And [as for] you, you sheep, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will distinguish between sheep and sheep, [and between] rams and goats.

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will separate between the strong sheep and the weak sheep.

Therefore I will save My sheep, and they shall no longer be for a prey; and I will judge between ram and ram.

Say to them, [As] I live, says the Lord, surely as you spoke into My ears, so will I do to you.

you shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out My hand to establish you upon it; except only Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

For I [will] give commandment, and sift the house of Israel among all the Gentiles, as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, and yet a fragment shall by no means fall upon the earth.

All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, who say, Calamities shall certainly not draw near, nor come upon us.

And it shall come to pass that in all the land, says the Lord, two-thirds in it shall be cut off and perish; but one-third shall be left in it.

And I will bring the third [part] through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon My name, and I will hear them, and say, This is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.

For behold, a day comes burning as an oven, and it shall consume them; and all the aliens, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, says the Lord Almighty, and there shall not be left of them root or branch.

And you shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, says the Lord Almighty.

and do not think to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones.

But even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His threshing floor, and He will gather His wheat into the barn; but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire."

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on [His] left.

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: "If the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

And just as Isaiah predicted: "Unless the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and like Gomorrah we would have been compared."

And I will stretch forth My hand against the prophets that see false [visions], and those that utter vanities. They shall not partake of the instruction of My people, neither shall they be written in the roll of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

you shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out My hand to establish you upon it; except only Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.

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.

But with the majority of them God was not pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

Therefore since it remains [for] some to enter into it, and those formerly having the gospel preached [to them] did not enter on account of disobedience,

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

And slain [men] shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

And I will set My face against them; they shall go forth of the fire, and [yet] fire shall devour them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set My face against them.

And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and you shall bear the guilt of your devices, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. Pause.