Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.

But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, "Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble."

For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear.

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:

your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,