I will establish my sovereignty over Elam. I will destroy their king and their leaders,” says the Lord.

Then I perceived that the glory of the God of Israel was there, as in the vision I had seen earlier in the valley.

“When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

“Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword.

I was concerned for my holy reputation which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.

In whatever tribe the foreigner resides, there you will give him his inheritance,” declares the sovereign Lord.

The circumference of the city will be six miles. The name of the city from that day forward will be: ‘The Lord Is There.’”

I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs – I will rip open their chests. I will devour them there like a lion – like a wild animal would tear them apart.

Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them. I will repay you for what you have done!

Lend your aid and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves to that place.” Bring down, O Lord, your warriors!

Even if you were to soar high like an eagle, even if you were to make your nest among the stars, I can bring you down even from there!” says the Lord.

There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!

He is as bright as lightning; a two-pronged lightning bolt flashes from his hand. This is the outward display of his power.

He replied, “To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”

That is why its name was called Babel – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord.

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.’”

Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”