But they must make sure you learn to follow the religious practices of my people. Once they taught my people to swear their oaths using the name of the god Baal. But then, they must swear oaths using my name, saying, “As surely as the Lord lives, I swear.” If they do these things, then they will be included among the people I call my own.

She grabbed him by his outer garment, saying, “Have sex with me!” But he left his outer garment in her hand and ran outside.

So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.”’”

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, and they will respect you.

Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship the Lord.”

As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her, “Come on! Get in bed with me, my sister!”

You rescue me from a hostile army; you preserve me as a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.

I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”

Then all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God.

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and worshiped instead the gods of the native peoples whom God had destroyed before them.

But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live, and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.

These are the leaders and those enrolled with them by genealogy who were coming up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

Then the two choirs that gave thanks took their stations in the temple of God. I did also, along with half the officials with me,

You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

All those who behave wickedly do not understand – those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord.

By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God.

He says: “Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God!