Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes – both calamity and blessing?

He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies.

Have you not rejected us, O God? O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.

Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission and becomes unclean by it,

When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion. The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord to his people will accomplish this.

Have you not rejected us, O God? O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.

Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?

“For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion. The intense devotion of the Lord who commands armies will accomplish this.

“Before I formed you in your mother’s womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

Set up a gravestone for Moab, for it will certainly be laid in ruins! Its cities will be laid waste and become uninhabited.”

As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.

Bring out your belongings packed for exile during the day while they are watching. And go out at evening, while they are watching, as if for exile.

It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!

“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

“‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,