I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth before me.

When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.

From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

Babylonia will be plundered. Those who plunder it will take all they want,” says the Lord.

The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.

The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.

I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.

You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come halfway up the altar.

they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations.”

You must put pure frankincense on each row, and it will become a memorial portion for the bread, a gift to the Lord.

You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

They charged two-thirds of a shekel to sharpen plowshares and cutting instruments, and a third of a shekel to sharpen picks and axes, and to set ox goads.

Here is a message about Damascus: “Look, Damascus is no longer a city, it is a heap of ruins!

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there.

Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.