This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.
But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the op
I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even
Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush hi
Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made you
But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
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
All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, the
Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant befo
For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swa