So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

Whatever you vow, you must be careful to do what you have promised, such as what you have vowed to the Lord your God as a freewill offering.

The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

Now look! Here is the king you have chosen – the one that you asked for! Look, the Lord has given you a king!

and Hebron; and for those in whatever other places David and his men had traveled.

But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”

He replied, “Don’t be afraid, for our side outnumbers them.”

‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them.

Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.

Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.

‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.

None of the sins he has committed will be held against him; because of the righteousness he has done, he will live.

“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

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