Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places – they and their children will sprout forth and return.

“I will send it out,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”

Then he cried out to me, “Look! The ones going to the northland have brought me peace about the northland.”

“The Lord who rules over all said, ‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.

These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.

Then I took my staff “Pleasantness” and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people.

But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers? Then they paid attention and confessed, ‘The Lord who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.’”