I will purify them from all the sin that they committed against me. I will forgive all their sins which they committed in rebelling against me.

“The Lord has told you people who remain in Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Be very sure of this: I warn you here and now.

‘We are ashamed because we have been insulted. Our faces show our disgrace. For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the Lord’s temple.’

They say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; the city is a cooking pot and we are the meat in it.’

The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.

Now after you another kingdom will arise, one inferior to yours. Then a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule in all the earth.

The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen in all the land,

From the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set in place, there are 1,290 days.

To you, O Lord, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the grassy pastures, flames have razed all the trees in the fields.

Let the nations be roused and let them go up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit in judgment on all the surrounding nations.

Isaac’s centers of worship will become desolate; Israel’s holy places will be in ruins. I will attack Jeroboam’s dynasty with the sword.”

In fact, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I delivered you from that place of slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.

“I have heard Moab’s taunts and the Ammonites’ insults. They taunted my people and verbally harassed those living in Judah.

So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”

Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

The experts in the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the ruler of demons he casts out demons.”