I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he sa
but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity
a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they
Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were u
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities o
David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; b
For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mounta
So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your p
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.