So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?
You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the
Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that
As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
With the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep,
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, th
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of
Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infan
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death
so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Ju
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off a
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where
‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works
Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor,
For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, an
He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and
I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.