2:6 ‘Don’t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,’ they say excitedly.
‘These prophets should not preach of such things;
we will not be overtaken by humiliation.’
5:12 I will remove the sorcery
and you will no longer have omen readers living among you.
2:5 Therefore no one will assign you land in the Lord’s community.
2:10 But you are the ones who will be forced to leave!
For this land is not secure!
Sin will thoroughly destroy it!
4:12 But they do not know what the Lord is planning;
they do not understand his strategy.
He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed
5:15 I will angrily seek vengeance
on the nations that do not obey me.”
1:11 Residents
The residents of Zaanan can’t leave their city.
Beth Ezel
“He takes from you what he desires.”
7:18 There is no other God like you!
You
and pardon
of those who remain among your people.
You do not remain angry forever,
but delight in showing loyal love.
2:3 Therefore the Lord says this: “Look, I am devising disaster for this nation!
It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck.
You will no longer
for it will be a time of catastrophe.
3:5 This is what the Lord says: “The prophets who mislead my people
are as good as dead.
If someone gives them enough to eat,
they offer an oracle of peace.
But if someone does not give them food,
they are ready to declare war on him.
3:11 Her
her priests proclaim rulings for profit,
and her prophets read omens for pay.
Yet they claim to trust
“The Lord is among us.
Disaster will not overtake
4:3 He will arbitrate
and settle disputes between many
They will beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nations will not use weapons
and they will no longer train for war.
5:7 Those survivors from
in the midst of many nations.
They will be like the dew the Lord sends,
like the rain on the grass,
that does not hope for men to come
or wait around for humans to arrive.