Except Jehovah of Hosts had left us a very small remnant, we would be as Sodom; we would be like Gomorrah.

Fury is not in Me; who would set the briers and thorns against Me in battle? I would step through it; I would burn it at once.

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? Did not Jehovah, against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor did they obey His Law.

Oh that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

And your seed would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like its grain; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.

He led them through the deep, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they would not stumble.

Oh that You would tear the heavens and come down, that mountains would quake before You,