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!

I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.

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.

Your creditors will suddenly attack; those who terrify you will spring into action, and they will rob you.

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.

And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?’”

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.’

And people will settle there, and there will no longer be the threat of divine extermination – Jerusalem will dwell in security.

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.” (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period.” So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.

“This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.

But we replied, ‘We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’

Joseph was no longer able to control himself before all his attendants, so he cried out, “Make everyone go out from my presence!” No one remained with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.