I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’p>

so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them.

I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood.<n id="1" />

Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey &#8211; shedding blood and destroying lives &#8211; so they can get dishonest profit.

This is how you assessed<n id="1" /> the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled<n id="2" /> your nipples and squeezed<n id="3" /> your young breasts.p>

For seven months Israel<n id="1" /> will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.

<p class="poetry">You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,p> <p class="poetry">removing them far from their own country.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so that<n id="2" /> everyone<n id="3" /> will be destroyed<n id="4" /> from Esau&#8217;s mountain!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> responded:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Write down this message!<n id="2" /> Record it legibly on tablets,p> <p class="poetry">so the one who announces<n id="3" /> it may read it easily.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;You who force your neighbor to drink wine<n id="1" /> are as good as dead<n id="2" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">so you can look at their genitals.<n id="4" />p>

I have chosen him<n id="1" /> so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep<n id="2" /> the way of the <sc>Lordsc> by doing<n id="3" /> what is right and just. Then the <sc>Lordsc> will give<n id="4" /> to Abraham what he promised<n id="5" /> him.&#8221;p>

for the <sc>Lordsc> determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.<n id="1" />p>

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare<n id="1" /> the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

Isaac<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son.<n id="2" /> Then I will bless you.&#8221;<n id="3" /> So Jacob<n id="4" /> brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac<n id="5" /> drank.

As for you, you meant to harm me,<n id="1" /> but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So they put foremen<n id="1" /> over the Israelites<n id="2" /> to oppress<n id="3" /> them with hard labor. As a result<n id="4" /> they built Pithom and Rameses<n id="5" /> as store cities for Pharaoh.

&#8220;that they may believe that the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders<n id="1" /> may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Honor<n id="1" /> your father and your mother, that you may live a long time<n id="2" /> in the land<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving to you.p>