I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion, 'You are my people.'"

They will sprout up like a tree in the grass, like poplars beside channels of water.

No foreigner who becomes a follower of the Lord should say, 'The Lord will certainly exclude me from his people.' The eunuch should not say, 'Look, I am like a dried-up tree.'"

you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.