I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!

I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!

Don’t be afraid, despised insignificant Jacob, men of Israel. I am helping you,” says the Lord, your protector, the Holy One of Israel.

Remember these things, O Jacob, O Israel, for you are my servant. I formed you to be my servant; O Israel, I will not forget you!

“For Israel and Judah will not be forsaken by their God, the Lord who rules over all. For the land of Babylonia is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?

“As for you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord!

Say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough of all your abominable practices, O house of Israel!

of the land. This will be his property in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people, but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

I know Ephraim all too well; the evil of Israel is not hidden from me. For you have engaged in prostitution, O Ephraim; Israel has defiled itself.

“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel!

There he set up an altar and called it “The God of Israel is God.”

Then Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.

When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are these?”

“Assemble and listen, you sons of Jacob; listen to Israel, your father.

God saw the Israelites, and God understood….

The Israelites did so, and they gathered – some more, some less.

Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up,

I will reside among the Israelites, and I will be their God,

So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.