My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the sovereign Lord.

Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.

All the people of the land will contribute to this offering for the prince of Israel.

On that day the prince will provide for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

His power will be great, but it will not be by his strength alone. He will cause terrible destruction. He will be successful in what he undertakes. He will destroy powerful people and the people of the holy ones.

Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.”

Then with smooth words he will defile those who have rejected the covenant. But the people who are loyal to their God will act valiantly.

These who are wise among the people will teach the masses. However, they will fall by the sword and by the flame, and they will be imprisoned and plundered for some time.

Do not let anyone accuse or contend against anyone else: for my case is against you priests!

I will deal with the people and priests together: I will punish them both for their ways, and I will repay them for their deeds.

Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.

My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

Then the Lord took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission, ‘Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!’

All the sinners among my people will die by the sword – the ones who say, ‘Disaster will not come near, it will not confront us.’

but you rise up as an enemy against my people. You steal a robe from a friend, from those who pass by peacefully as if returning from a war.

You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.

Your warriors will be like women in your midst; the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates.