All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.

Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

I will bend Judah as my bow; I will load the bow with Ephraim, my arrow! I will stir up your sons, Zion, against yours, Greece, and I will make you, Zion, like a warrior’s sword.

If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your loyal followers.

For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.

“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.

Your sons will carry on the dynasty of your ancestors; you will make them princes throughout the land.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

Moab, you are doomed! You people who worship Chemosh will be destroyed. Your sons will be taken away captive. Your daughters will be carried away into exile.

but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark – you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me – you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

Now the firstling of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. “No one will appear before me empty-handed.

You must eat it in a holy place because it is your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts of the Lord, for this is what I have been commanded.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

Why are you scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’