So I, the Lord, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, say: “I will soon bring on Judah and all the citizens of Jerusalem all the disaster that I threatened to bring on them. I will do this because I spoke to them but they did not listen. I called out to them but they did not answer.”’”

Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry.

For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the pit.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

The Lord regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

These last five kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself.”

The Lord said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

He had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai.

Then the Lord’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Is anything impossible for the Lord? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”

that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

The Lord went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.