Do you think this temple I have claimed as my own<n id="1" /> is to be a hideout for robbers?<n id="2" /> You had better take note!<n id="3" /> I have seen for myself what you have done! says the <sc>Lordsc>.

Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do.<n id="1" /> If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them<n id="2" /> as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing.<n id="3" />

You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again.<n id="1" /> But you have not paid any attention to them.

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel has a message for you.<n id="1" /> &#8216;I made a covenant with your ancestors<n id="2" /> when I brought them out of Egypt where they had been slaves.<n id="3" /> It stipulated,<n id="4" />

Then say, &#8216;In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments<n id="1" /> I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.&#8217;&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">The prophecies of Jeremiah end here.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Yet<n id="1" /> until now<n id="2" /> she has refused to acknowledge<n id="3" /> that I<n id="4" /> was the onep> <p class="poetry">who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;p> <p class="poetry">and that it was I who<n id="5" /> lavished on her the silver and gold &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">which they<n id="6" /> used in worshiping Baal!<n id="7" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">I will be like a lion to Ephraim,p> <p class="poetry">like a young lion to the house of Judah.p> <p class="poetry">I myself will tear them to pieces,p> <p class="poetry">then I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them!p>

<p class="poetry">I cannot carry out<n id="1" /> my fierce anger!p> <p class="poetry">I cannot totally destroy Ephraim!p> <p class="poetry">Because I am God, and not man &#8211; the Holy One among you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">I will not come in wrath!p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> confirms this oath by his very own life.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>, the God who commands armies, is speaking:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I despise Jacob&#8217;s arrogance;p> <p class="poetry">I hate their<n id="2" /> fortresses.p> <p class="poetry">I will hand over to their enemies<n id="3" /> the city of Samaria<n id="4" /> and everything in it.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;For look, I am giving a commandp> <p class="poetry">and I will shake the family of Israel together with all the nations.p> <p class="poetry">It will resemble a sieve being shaken,p> <p class="poetry">when not even a pebble falls to the ground.<n id="1" />p>

He said to them, &#8220;I am a Hebrew! And I worship<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="2" /> the God of heaven,<n id="3" /> who made the sea and the dry land.&#8221;

&#8220;Go immediately<n id="1" /> to Nineveh, that large city,<n id="2" /> and proclaim to<n id="3" /> it the message that I tell you.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">But I<n id="1" /> am full of the courage that the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s Spirit gives,p> <p class="poetry">and have a strong commitment to justice.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion,p> <p class="poetry">and Israel with its sin.<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;I am about to make Jerusalem<n id="1" /> a cup that brings dizziness<n id="2" /> to all the surrounding nations; indeed, Judah will also be included when Jerusalem is besieged.

Look, I will send you Elijah<n id="1" /> the prophet before the great and terrible day of the <sc>Lordsc> arrives.

For in seven days<n id="1" /> I will cause it to rain<n id="2" /> on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">After these things the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to Abram in a vision: &#8220;Fear not, Abram! I am your shield<n id="1" /> and the one who will reward you in great abundance.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Then Sarai said to Abram, &#8220;You have brought this wrong on me!<n id="1" /> I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you,<n id="2" /> but when she realized<n id="3" /> that she was pregnant, she despised me.<n id="4" /> May the <sc>Lordsc> judge between you and me!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

&#8220;I do not know who has done this thing,&#8221; Abimelech replied. &#8220;Moreover,<n id="1" /> you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today.&#8221;p>

saying &#8220;Praised be the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love<n id="1" /> for my master! The <sc>Lordsc> has led me<n id="2" /> to the house<n id="3" /> of my master&#8217;s relatives!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>