“How long must I see the enemy’s battle flags and hear the military signals of their bugles?”

So I bought the shorts as the Lord had told me to do and put them on.

“‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

He will be left unburied just like a dead donkey. His body will be dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.’”

“You say, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets of good news for us here in Babylon.’

Then you will again be my people and I will be your God.

Indeed, there is hope for your posterity. Your children will return to their own territory. I, the Lord, affirm it!

Then they will say, ‘Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep when I wake up and look around.’”

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will burn up the palaces of Ben Hadad.”

The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured. Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.”

He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope:

“My portion is the Lord,” I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.

For he is not predisposed to afflict or to grieve people.

Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

מ (Mem) But it happened due to the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

They were haughty and practiced abominable deeds before me. Therefore when I saw it I removed them.

You must bear your punishment for your obscene conduct and your abominable practices, declares the Lord.