28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you
3:8 Jerusalem certainly stumbles,
Judah falls,
for their words and their actions offend the Lord;
they rebel against his royal authority.
3:9 The look on their faces
like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin.
Too bad for them!
For they bring disaster on themselves.
3:10 Tell the innocent
for they will be rewarded for what they have done.
3:11 Too bad for the wicked sinners!
For they will get exactly what they deserve.
4:4 Just as ritual circumcision cuts away the foreskin
as an external symbol of dedicated covenant commitment,
you must genuinely dedicate yourselves to the Lord
and get rid of everything that hinders your commitment to me,
people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem.
If you do not,
that no one will be able to extinguish.
That will happen because of the evil you have done.”
9:15 Because of all their evil in Gilgal,
I hate them there.
On account of their evil deeds,
I will drive them out of my land.
I will no longer love them;
all their rulers are rebels.
2:6 Therefore, I will soon
I will wall her in
2:7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch
she will seek them, but she will not find them.
Then she will say,
“I will go back
because I was better off then than I am now.”
2:8 Yet
who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;
and that it was I who
which they
2:9 Therefore, I will take back
and my new wine when it ripens;
I will take away my wool and my flax
which I had provided
2:10 Soon
and no one will be able to rescue her from me!
2:11 I will put an end to all her celebration:
her annual religious festivals,
monthly new moon celebrations,
and weekly Sabbath festivities –
all her appointed festivals.