I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of My wrath. I will command him to draw out the plunder, and to seize the spoils, and to trample them like the mud of the streets.

Who gave Jacob for a spoils, and Israel to robbers? Was it not Jehovah, against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor did they obey His Law.

Therefore He has poured upon him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle. And it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay it to heart.

And David said to Gad, I am in great distress. Let us fall now into the hand of Jehovah, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man.

But a prophet of Jehovah was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out before the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: Behold, because Jehovah the God of your fathers was angry with Judah, He has delivered them into your hand; but you have killed them in a rage that reaches up to the heavens.

For they have persecuted the ones whom You have stricken, and they talk to the grief of those You pierced.

And I am exceedingly angry at the nations at ease; for I was but a little angry, and they helped further the evil.

Therefore I will defile the rulers of the sanctuary, and will give Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

The Lord has swallowed up all the dwelling places of Jacob and has not pitied. In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.

Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

By the abundance of your trading they filled your midst with violence, and you sinned; therefore I cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones.

Their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.

who made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house for his prisoners?

Shame shall cover you because of your violence against your brother Jacob, and you shall be cut off forever.

For as you have drunk on My holy mountain, so shall all the nations continually drink. Yea, they shall drink and shall swallow; and they shall be as though they had never been.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever gauge you measure, it will be measured back to you.

For judgment will be without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Indeed, mercy rejoices over judgment.

a nation of fierce countenance, which does not regard the face of the old nor show favor to the young.