<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers<n id="1" /> or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them.<n id="2" /> Then they will know that I am the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey.<n id="1" /> They paid allegiance to<n id="2" /> worthless idols, and so became worthless to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" /> They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s command.<n id="4" />