28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you 1 in everything you undertake 2 until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. 3
3:8 Jerusalem certainly stumbles,
Judah falls,
for their words and their actions offend the Lord; 4
they rebel against his royal authority. 5
3:9 The look on their faces 6 testifies to their guilt; 7
like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. 8
Too bad for them! 9
For they bring disaster on themselves.
3:10 Tell the innocent 10 it will go well with them, 11
for they will be rewarded for what they have done. 12
3:11 Too bad for the wicked sinners!
For they will get exactly what they deserve. 13
4:4 Just as ritual circumcision cuts away the foreskin
as an external symbol of dedicated covenant commitment,
you must genuinely dedicate yourselves to the Lord
and get rid of everything that hinders your commitment to me, 14
people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem.
If you do not, 15 my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against you
that no one will be able to extinguish.
That will happen because of the evil you have done.”
9:15 Because of all their evil in Gilgal,
I hate them there.
On account of their evil deeds,
I will drive them out of my land. 25
I will no longer love them;
all their rulers are rebels.
2:6 Therefore, I will soon 26 fence her in 27 with thorns;
I will wall her in 28 so that 29 she cannot find her way. 30
2:7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch 31 them;
she will seek them, but she will not find them. 32
Then she will say,
“I will go back 33 to my husband, 34
because I was better off then than I am now.” 35
2:8 Yet 36 until now 37 she has refused to acknowledge 38 that I 39 was the one
who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;
and that it was I who 40 lavished on her the silver and gold –
which they 41 used in worshiping Baal! 42
2:9 Therefore, I will take back 43 my grain during the harvest time 44
and my new wine when it ripens; 45
I will take away my wool and my flax
which I had provided 46 in order to clothe her. 47
2:10 Soon 48 I will expose her lewd nakedness 49 in front of her lovers,
and no one will be able to rescue her from me! 50
2:11 I will put an end to all her celebration:
her annual religious festivals,
monthly new moon celebrations,
and weekly Sabbath festivities –
all her appointed festivals.