Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Yet on your fathers did the Lord set His affection to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day.

The Lord has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;

“For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

He declares His words to Jacob,
His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.

We have become like those over whom You have never ruled,
Like those who were not called by Your name.

All

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” declares the Lord; “and they will come and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls round about and against all the cities of Judah.

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You

And on the families that do not call Your name;
For they have devoured Jacob;
They have devoured him and consumed him
And have laid waste his habitation.

All because of the many harlotries of the harlot,
The charming one, the mistress of sorceries,
Who sells nations by her harlotries
And families by her sorceries.

And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them.

and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

Therefore

Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary.” So they started with the elders who were before the temple.

As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares the Lord God.

Thus He has confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our

rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.

Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His

miracles were done, because they did not repent.

And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes,

There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,

For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

Punish

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised—

therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, I am about to punish them! The young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters will die by famine;

“What will you say when He appoints over you—
And you yourself had taught them—
Former

companions to be head over you?

Will not pangs take hold of you
Like a woman in childbirth?

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For I will die in this land, I shall not cross the Jordan, but you shall cross and take possession of this good land.

Then I will punish their transgression with the rod
And their iniquity with stripes.

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming!

But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.