They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but not increase in numbers; because they have abandoned the Lord by pursuing other gods.

But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.

Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

The Lord brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet, and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive.