“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
This is the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:
I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her ene
When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:
Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long;
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and yo
Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”
On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be co