Yet the children of your people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight; whereas this their way is not straight.

And [as for] you, son of man, the children of your people are they that speak concerning you by the walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk one to another, saying, Let us come together, and let us hear the [words] that proceed from the Lord.

And go your way, go in to the captivity, to the children of your people, and you shall speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord; whether they will hear, [or] whether they will refuse.

But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient; for they are a provoking house.

and you shall say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests: Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed.

You fear the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, says the Lord.

Or again if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let the sword go through the land; and I cut off from them man and beast;

Thus says the Lord: And if I even send upon Jerusalem My four severe judgments- the sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it [both] man and beast;

Son of man, prophesy, and you shall say, Thus says the Lord: Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage,

And He made it ready for His hand to hold. The sword is sharpened, it is ready to put into the hand of the slayer.

and what if even the tribe be rejected? It shall not be, says the Lord God.

and the weak ones be multiplied at every gate- they are given up to the slaughter of the sword; it is well fitted for slaughter, it is well fitted for glittering.

And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of [My] covenant, and you shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.

The ravagers have come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other- 8no flesh has any peace.

And it shall be, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity.

And I will punish them with four kinds [of death], says the Lord, the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy.

[even] upon [the extreme] part of the earth; for the Lord [has] a controversy with the nations, He is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, says the Lord.

How long will you smite, O sword of the Lord? How long will it be till you are quiet? Return into your sheath, rest, and be removed.

How shall it be quiet, seeing the Lord has given it a commission against Ashkelon, and against the regions on the sea coast, to awake against the remaining [countries]!

Awake, O sword, against My shepherds, and against the man who is My citizen, says the Lord Almighty; strike the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring My hand upon the little ones.

And you, son of man, I have set you [as] a watchman for the house of Israel, and you shall hear a word from My mouth.

And David was sitting between the two gates. And the watchman went up on the top of the gate of the wall, and lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was running alone before him.

And the watchman saw another man running. And the watchman cried at the gate, and said, Behold, another man is running alone. And the king said, He also brings good news.

And there went up a watchman upon the tower of Jezreel, and saw the dust [made by] Jehu as he approached. And he said, I see dust. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Peace.

And he sent another horseman, and he came to him, and said, Thus says the king, Peace. And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.

For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for yourself, and declare whatever you shall see.

Hearken with great attention, and call Uriah to the watchtower; the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night;

All you beasts of the field, come, devour, all you beasts of the forest.

See how they are all blinded; they have not known; [they are] dumb dogs [that] will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.

And on your walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen all day and all night, who shall never cease making mention of the Lord.

Lift up a standard on the walls of Babylon, prepare the quivers, rouse the guards, prepare the weapons; for the Lord has taken [the work] in hand, and will execute what He has spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon,

The watchman of Ephraim [was] with God. The prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.