You take olive oil as tribute to your king, along with many perfumes. You send your messengers to a distant place; you go all the way to Sheol.

Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls, and fistfights. Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

We have rebelled and tried to deceive the Lord; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.

I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the Lord, don’t be silent!

Come through! Come through the gates! Prepare the way for the people! Build it! Build the roadway! Remove the stones! Lift a signal flag for the nations!

Too bad for the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.

Many will stumble over the stone and the rock, and will fall and be seriously injured, and will be ensnared and captured.”

They attacked Aiath, moved through Migron, depositing their supplies at Micmash.

Look, the Lord will throw you far away, you mere man! He will wrap you up tightly.

A fool will no longer be called honorable; a deceiver will no longer be called principled.

The nations will be burned to ashes; like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.

For the Lord judges all humanity with fire and his sword; the Lord will kill many.

Manasseh fought against Ephraim, and Ephraim against Manasseh; together they fought against Judah. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

“Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, so we may examine them and see how they were fulfilled. Or decree for us some future events!

Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful – maybe you will scare away disaster.

I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument that will be better than sons and daughters. I will set up a permanent monument for them that will remain.

“At that time,” says the Lord who commands armies, “the peg fastened into a solid place will come loose. It will be cut off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off.” Indeed, the Lord has spoken.

When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.