They will return to Egypt! Assyria will rule over them because they refuse to repent!

My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!

But I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me; except me there is no Savior.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine; you commanded the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy!’

“The virgin Israel has fallen down and will not get up again. She is abandoned on her own land with no one to help her get up.”

The Lord decided not to do this. The sovereign Lord said, “This will not happen either.”

All the sinners among my people will die by the sword – the ones who say, ‘Disaster will not come near, it will not confront us.’

Therefore no one will assign you land in the Lord’s community.

But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!

But they do not know what the Lord is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

I will angrily seek vengeance on the nations that do not obey me.”

Whatever you plot against the Lord, he will completely destroy! Distress will not arise a second time.

Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed! She is full of lies; she is filled with plunder; she has hoarded her spoil!

Will he then continue to fill and empty his throw net? Will he always destroy nations and spare none?

Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.

and those who turn their backs on the Lord and do not want the Lord’s help or guidance.”

Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.

He replied, “Don’t you know what these are?” And I said, “No, sir.”

But I will be different now to this remnant of my people from the way I was in those days,’ says the Lord who rules over all,

Instead he will say, ‘I am no prophet – indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.’