These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,

So Israel has been in rebellion against the Davidic dynasty to this very day.

So Israel has been in rebellion against the Davidic dynasty to this very day.

‘If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack, judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple. We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will hear and deliver us.’

He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?

“The dead tremble – those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.

He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land.

They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.

I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.

If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.

Look, ambassadors cry out in the streets; messengers sent to make peace weep bitterly.

י (Yod) Let a person sit alone in silence, when the Lord is disciplining him.

to deprive a person of his rights in the presence of the Most High,

When the ark of the Lord had been in the land of the Philistines for seven months,

They will hear, ‘Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!’