To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he will rule over you.”

These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

When the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt came to an end,

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

So there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

Now if your offering is a grain offering made in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

The city shall be under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

Rise up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, “There are things under the ban in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you have removed the things under the ban from your midst.”

Now the ark of the Lord had been in the country of the Philistines seven months.

So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and on account of our iniquities we, our kings and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity and to plunder and to open shame, as it is this day.

“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,
And if I hold back, what has left me?

That which has been is that which will be,
And that which has been done is that which will be done.
So there is nothing new under the sun.

What has been is remote and exceedingly mysterious. Who can discover it?

‘Why do you cry out over your injury?
Your pain is incurable.
Because your iniquity is great
And your sins are numerous,
I have done these things to you.

‘You said, “Ah, woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and have found no rest.”’

“Behold, the rulers of Israel, each according to his power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood.

Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have committed acts of lewdness.

So when it comes to pass—as surely it will—then they will know that a prophet has been in their midst.”