You will not always be angry with me, will you? You will not be mad at me forever, will you?’ That is what you say, but you continually do all the evil that you can.”

They will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field because they have rebelled against me,” says the Lord.

so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.

He said to me, “This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

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.

Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Don’t even share secrets with the one who lies in your arms!

So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your regiments out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you as he promised your ancestors.

For if you carefully observe all of these commandments I am giving you and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, and remain loyal to him,

But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, obey his commands, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and being!”

Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you by following his instructions and obeying his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish,

Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his relatives from his family (the Korahites) were assigned to guard the entrance to the sanctuary. Their ancestors had guarded the entrance to the Lord’s dwelling place.