Terror, pits, and traps are in store for the people who live in Moab. I, the Lord, affirm it!

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

They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified.

Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon, make sure you read aloud all these prophecies.

But he left behind some of the poor and gave them fields and vineyards.

ג (Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

ט (Tet) The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.

It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the Lord.

Each moved straight ahead – wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went.

An end comes – the end comes! It has awakened against you – the end is upon you! Look, it is coming!

He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.”

The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings I saw at the Kebar River.

You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,’ declares the sovereign Lord.

This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing!

They will bear their punishment; the punishment of the one who sought an oracle will be the same as the punishment of the prophet who gave it

“‘Then I bathed you in water, washed the blood off you, and anointed you with fragrant oil.

You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.

Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, but you were not satisfied there either.

so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them.