(50) In the steppes of Moab, at the Jordan near Jericho, יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: (51) Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, (52) you shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land; you shall destroy all their figured objects; you shall destroy all their molten images, and you shall demolish all their cult places. (53) And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have assigned the land to you to possess. (54) You shall apportion the land among yourselves by lot, clan by clan: with larger groups increase the share, with smaller groups reduce the share. Wherever the lot falls for it, that shall be its location. You shall have your portions according to your ancestral tribes. (55) But if you do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land, those whom you allow to remain shall be stings in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land in which you live; (56) so that I will do to you what I planned to do to them. (1)יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: (2) Instruct the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as your portion, the land of Canaan with its various boundaries: (3) Your southern sector shall extend from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom. Your southern boundary shall start on the east from the tip of the Dead Sea. (4) Your boundary shall then turn to pass south of the ascent of Akrabbim and continue to Zin, and its limits shall be south of Kadesh-barnea, reaching Hazar-addar and continuing to Azmon. (5) From Azmon the boundary shall turn toward the Wadi of Egypt and terminate at the Sea. (6) For the western boundary you shall have the coast of the Great Sea; that shall serve as your western boundary. (7) This shall be your northern boundary: Draw a line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor; (8) from Mount Hor draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and let the boundary reach Zedad. (9) The boundary shall then run to Ziphron and terminate at Hazar-enan. That shall be your northern boundary. (10) For your eastern boundary you shall draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham. (11) From Shepham the boundary shall descend to Riblah on the east side of Ain; from there the boundary shall continue downward and abut on the eastern slopes of the Sea of Chinnereth. (12) The boundary shall then descend along the Jordan and terminate at the Dead Sea. That shall be your land as defined by its boundaries on all sides. (13) Moses instructed the Israelites, saying: This is the land you are to receive by lot as your hereditary portion, which יהוה has commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes. (14) For the Reubenite tribe by its ancestral houses, the Gadite tribe by its ancestral houses, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their portions: (15) those two and a half tribes have received their portions across the Jordan, opposite Jericho, on the east, the orient side.

(16)יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: (17) These are the names of the participants through whom the land shall be apportioned for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. (18) And you shall also take a chieftain from each tribe through whom the land shall be apportioned. (19) These are the names of the participants: from the tribe of Judah: Caleb son of Jephunneh. (20) From the Simeonite tribe: Samuel son of Ammihud. (21) From the tribe of Benjamin: Elidad son of Chislon. (22) From the Danite tribe: a chieftain, Bukki son of Jogli. (23) For the descendants of Joseph: from the Manassite tribe: a chieftain, Hanniel son of Ephod; (24) and from the Ephraimite tribe: a chieftain, Kemuel son of Shiphtan. (25) From the Zebulunite tribe: a chieftain, Elizaphan son of Parnach. (26) From the Issacharite tribe: a chieftain, Paltiel son of Azzan. (27) From the Asherite tribe: a chieftain, Ahihud son of Shelomi. (28) From the Naphtalite tribe: a chieftain, Pedahel son of Ammihud. (29) It was these whom יהוה designated to allot portions to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

(1)יהוה spoke to Moses in the steppes of Moab at the Jordan near Jericho, saying: (2) Instruct the Israelite people to assign, out of the holdings apportioned to them, towns for the Levites to dwell in; you shall also assign to the Levites pasture land around their towns. (3) The towns shall be theirs to dwell in, and the pasture shall be for the cattle they own and all their other beasts. (4) The town pasture that you are to assign to the Levites shall extend a thousand cubits outside the town wall all around. (5) You shall measure off two thousand cubits outside the town on the east side, two thousand on the south side, two thousand on the west side, and two thousand on the north side, with the town in the center. That shall be the pasture for their towns. (6) The towns that you assign to the Levites shall comprise the six cities of refuge that you are to designate for [a man] who has killed someone to flee to, to which you shall add forty-two towns. (7) Thus the total of the towns that you assign to the Levites shall be forty-eight towns, with their pasture. (8) In assigning towns from the holdings of the Israelites, take more from the larger groups and less from the smaller, so that each assigns towns to the Levites in proportion to the share it receives.

(9) יהוה spoke further to Moses: (10) Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, (11) you shall provide yourselves with places to serve you as cities of refuge to which [a man] who has killed someone —who has slain a person unintentionally—may flee. (12) The cities shall serve you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the killer may not die unless he has stood trial before the assembly. (13) The towns that you thus assign shall be six cities of refuge in all. (14) Three cities shall be designated beyond the Jordan, and the other three shall be designated in the land of Canaan: they shall serve as cities of refuge. (15) These six cities shall serve the Israelites and the resident aliens among them for refuge, so that any man who slays a person unintentionally may flee there.

(16) Anyone, however, who strikes another with an iron object so that death results is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death. (17) If one struck another with a stone tool that could cause death, and death resulted, that person is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death. (18) Similarly, if one struck another with a wooden tool that could cause death, and death resulted, that person is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death. (19) It is the blood-avenger who shall put the murderer to death; that is who shall put that person to death upon encounter. (20) So, too, if one pushed another in hate or hurled something at [the victim] on purpose and death resulted, (21) or if one struck another with the hand in enmity and death resulted, the assailant shall be put to death; that person is a murderer. The blood-avenger shall put the murderer to death upon encounter. (22) But if [a man] pushed without malice aforethought or hurled any object at [the victim] unintentionally, (23) or inadvertently dropped upon [the victim] any deadly object of stone, and death resulted—though not being an enemy and not seeking to harm— (24) in such cases the assembly shall decide between the slayer and the blood-avenger. (25) The assembly shall protect the killer from the blood-avenger, and the assembly shall restore him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and there he shall remain until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the sacred oil. (26) But if the killer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he has fled, (27) and the blood-avenger comes upon him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the blood-avenger kills the killer, there is no bloodguilt on his account. (28) For he must remain inside his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; after the death of the high priest, the killer may return to his land holding. (29) Such shall be your law of procedure throughout the ages in all your settlements.

(30) If anyone slays a person, the killer may be executed only on the evidence of witnesses; the testimony of a single witness against a person shall not suffice for a sentence of death. (31) You may not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of a capital crime; [a murderer] must be put to death. (32) Nor may you accept ransom in lieu of flight to a city of refuge, enabling a man to return to live on his land before the death of the priest. (33) You shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and the land can have no expiation for blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. (34) You shall not defile the land in which you live, in which I Myself abide, for I יהוה abide among the Israelite people.

(1) The family heads in the clan of the descendants of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the Josephite clans, came forward and appealed to Moses and the chieftains, family heads of the Israelites. (2) They said, “יהוה commanded my lord to assign the land to the Israelites as shares by lot, and my lord was further commanded by יהוה to assign the share of our kinsman Zelophehad to his daughters. (3) Now, if they become the wives of persons from another Israelite tribe, their share will be cut off from our ancestral portion and be added to the portion of the tribe into which they become [wives]; thus our allotted portion will be diminished. (4) And even when the Israelites observe the jubilee, their share will be added to that of the tribe into which they become [wives], and their share will be cut off from the ancestral portion of our tribe.” (5) So Moses, at יהוה’s bidding, instructed the Israelites, saying: “The plea of the Josephite tribe is just. (6) This is what יהוה has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may become the wives of anyone they wish, provided they become wives within a clan of their father’s tribe. (7) No inheritance of the Israelites may pass over from one tribe to another, but the Israelite [heirs]—each of them—must remain bound to the ancestral portion of their tribe. (8) Every daughter among the Israelite tribes who inherits a share must become the wife of someone from a clan of her father’s tribe, in order that every Israelite [heir] may keep an ancestral share. (9) Thus no inheritance shall pass over from one tribe to another, but the Israelite tribes shall remain bound each to its portion.” (10) The daughters of Zelophehad did as יהוה had commanded Moses: (11) Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, Zelophehad’s daughters, became the wives of their uncles’ sons, (12) becoming wives within clans of descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph; and so their share remained in the tribe of their father’s clan. (13) These are the commandments and regulations that יהוה enjoined upon the Israelites, through Moses, on the steppes of Moab, at the Jordan near Jericho.

(10) The daughters of Zelophehad did as יהוה had commanded Moses: (11) Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, Zelophehad’s daughters, became the wives of their uncles’ sons, (12) becoming wives within clans of descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph; and so their share remained in the tribe of their father’s clan. (13) These are the commandments and regulations that יהוה enjoined upon the Israelites, through Moses, on the steppes of Moab, at the Jordan near Jericho.

(9) On the sabbath day: two yearling lambs without blemish, together with two-tenths of a measure of choice flour with oil mixed in as a meal offering, and with the proper libation— (10) a burnt offering for every sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its libation. (11) On your new moons you shall present a burnt offering to יהוה: two bulls of the herd, one ram, and seven yearling lambs, without blemish. (12) As meal offering for each bull: three-tenths of a measure of choice flour with oil mixed in. As meal offering for each ram: two-tenths of a measure of choice flour with oil mixed in. (13) As meal offering for each lamb: a tenth of a measure of fine flour with oil mixed in. Such shall be the burnt offering of pleasing odor, an offering by fire to יהוה. (14) Their libations shall be: half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. That shall be the monthly burnt offering for each new moon of the year. (15) And there shall be one goat as a sin offering to יהוה, to be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its libation.

(4)Hear the word of GOD, O House of Jacob, Every clan of the House of Israel!(5)Thus said GOD: What wrong did your ancestors find in MeThat they abandoned MeAnd went after delusion and were deluded?(6)They never asked themselves, “Where is GOD, Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,Who led us through the wilderness,A land of deserts and pits,A land of drought and darkness,A land nobody had traversed,Where no human being had dwelt?”(7)I brought you to this country of farmlandTo enjoy its fruit and its bounty;But you came and defiled My land,You made My possession abhorrent.(8)The priests never asked themselves, “Where is GOD?” The guardians of the Teaching ignored Me;The rulers rebelled against Me, And the prophets prophesied by BaalAnd followed what can do no good.(9)Oh, I will go on accusing you—declares GOD— And I will accuse your children’s children!(10)Just cross over to the isles of the Kittim and look,Send to Kedar and observe carefully;See if aught like this has ever happened:(11)Has any nation changed its godsEven though they are no-gods?But My people has exchanged its gloryFor what can do no good.(12)Be appalled, O heavens, at this;Be horrified, utterly dazed!—says GOD. (13)For My people have done a twofold wrong:They have forsaken Me, the Fount of living waters,And hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns,That cannot even hold water.(14)Is Israel a bondman?Is he a home-born slave?Then why is he given over to plunder?(15)Lions have roared over him,Have raised their cries.They have made his land a waste,His cities desolate, without inhabitants.(16)Those, too, in Noph and TahpanhesWill lay bare your head. (17)See, that is the price you have paidFor forsaking the ETERNAL your God Who led you in the way.(18)What, then, is the good of your going to EgyptTo drink the waters of the Nile?And what is the good of your going to AssyriaTo drink the waters of the Euphrates?(19)Let your misfortune reprove you,Let your afflictions rebuke you;Mark well how bad and bitter it isThat you forsake the ETERNAL your God, That awe for Me is not in you—declares my Sovereign GOD of Hosts. (20)For long ago you broke your yoke, Tore off your yoke-bands,And said, “I will not work!”On every high hill and under every verdant tree,You recline as a whore.(21)I planted you with noble vines,All with choicest seed;Alas, I find you changedInto a base, an alien vine!(22)Though you wash with natronAnd use much lye,Your guilt is ingrained before Me—declares my Sovereign GOD. (23)How can you say, “I am not defiled,I have not gone after the Baalim”?Look at your deeds in the Valley,Consider what you have done!Like a lustful she-camel,Restlessly running about,(24)Or like a wild ass used to the desert,Snuffing the wind in her eagerness,Whose passion none can restrain,None that seek her need grow weary—In her season, they’ll find her!(25)Save your foot from going bare,And your throat from thirst.But you say, “It is no use.No, I love the strangers,And after them I must go.”(26)Like a thief chagrined when caught,So is the House of Israel chagrined—They, their kings, their officers,And their priests and prophets.(27)They said to wood, “You are my father,”To stone, “You gave birth to me,”While to Me they turned their backsAnd not their faces.But in their hour of calamity they cry,“Arise and save us!”(28)And where are those godsYou made for yourself?Let them arise and save you, if they can,In your hour of calamity.For your gods have become, O Judah,As many as your towns!

(4)Just now you called to Me, “Father!You are the Companion of my youth.

(4)Hear the word of GOD, O House of Jacob, Every clan of the House of Israel!(5)Thus said GOD: What wrong did your ancestors find in MeThat they abandoned MeAnd went after delusion and were deluded?(6)They never asked themselves, “Where is GOD, Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,Who led us through the wilderness,A land of deserts and pits,A land of drought and darkness,A land nobody had traversed,Where no human being had dwelt?”(7)I brought you to this country of farmlandTo enjoy its fruit and its bounty;But you came and defiled My land,You made My possession abhorrent.(8)The priests never asked themselves, “Where is GOD?” The guardians of the Teaching ignored Me;The rulers rebelled against Me, And the prophets prophesied by BaalAnd followed what can do no good.(9)Oh, I will go on accusing you—declares GOD— And I will accuse your children’s children!(10)Just cross over to the isles of the Kittim and look,Send to Kedar and observe carefully;See if aught like this has ever happened:(11)Has any nation changed its godsEven though they are no-gods?But My people has exchanged its gloryFor what can do no good.(12)Be appalled, O heavens, at this;Be horrified, utterly dazed!—says GOD. (13)For My people have done a twofold wrong:They have forsaken Me, the Fount of living waters,And hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns,That cannot even hold water.(14)Is Israel a bondman?Is he a home-born slave?Then why is he given over to plunder?(15)Lions have roared over him,Have raised their cries.They have made his land a waste,His cities desolate, without inhabitants.(16)Those, too, in Noph and TahpanhesWill lay bare your head. (17)See, that is the price you have paidFor forsaking the ETERNAL your God Who led you in the way.(18)What, then, is the good of your going to EgyptTo drink the waters of the Nile?And what is the good of your going to AssyriaTo drink the waters of the Euphrates?(19)Let your misfortune reprove you,Let your afflictions rebuke you;Mark well how bad and bitter it isThat you forsake the ETERNAL your God, That awe for Me is not in you—declares my Sovereign GOD of Hosts. (20)For long ago you broke your yoke, Tore off your yoke-bands,And said, “I will not work!”On every high hill and under every verdant tree,You recline as a whore.(21)I planted you with noble vines,All with choicest seed;Alas, I find you changedInto a base, an alien vine!(22)Though you wash with natronAnd use much lye,Your guilt is ingrained before Me—declares my Sovereign GOD. (23)How can you say, “I am not defiled,I have not gone after the Baalim”?Look at your deeds in the Valley,Consider what you have done!Like a lustful she-camel,Restlessly running about,(24)Or like a wild ass used to the desert,Snuffing the wind in her eagerness,Whose passion none can restrain,None that seek her need grow weary—In her season, they’ll find her!(25)Save your foot from going bare,And your throat from thirst.But you say, “It is no use.No, I love the strangers,And after them I must go.”(26)Like a thief chagrined when caught,So is the House of Israel chagrined—They, their kings, their officers,And their priests and prophets.(27)They said to wood, “You are my father,”To stone, “You gave birth to me,”While to Me they turned their backsAnd not their faces.But in their hour of calamity they cry,“Arise and save us!”(28)And where are those godsYou made for yourself?Let them arise and save you, if they can,In your hour of calamity.For your gods have become, O Judah,As many as your towns!

(1)If you return, O Israel—declares GOD— If you return to Me,If you remove your abominations from My presenceAnd do not waver,(2)And swear, “As GOD lives,” In sincerity, justice, and righteousness—Nations shall bless themselves by youAnd praise themselves by you.

(2) GOD appeared to Solomon a second time, as before, at Gibeon. (3) GOD said to him, “I have heard the prayer and the supplication that you have offered to Me. I consecrate this House that you have built and I set My name there forever. My eyes and My heart shall ever be there. (4) As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked before Me, wholeheartedly and with uprightness, doing all that I have commanded you [and] keeping My laws and My rules, (5) then I will establish your throne of kingship over Israel forever, as I promised your father David, saying, ‘Your line on the throne of Israel shall never end.’ (6) [But] if you and your descendants turn away from Me and do not keep the commandments [and] the laws that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, (7) then I will sweep Israel off the land that I gave them; I will reject the House that I have consecrated to My name; and Israel shall become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. (8) And as for this House, once so exalted, everyone passing by it shall be appalled and shall hiss. And when they ask, ‘Why did GOD do thus to the land and to this House?’ (9) they shall be told, ‘It is because they forsook the ETERNAL their God who freed them from the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore GOD has brought all this calamity upon them.’”

(4) As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked before Me, wholeheartedly and with uprightness, doing all that I have commanded you [and] keeping My laws and My rules, (5) then I will establish your throne of kingship over Israel forever.

(4)Hear the word of GOD, O House of Jacob, Every clan of the House of Israel!(5)Thus said GOD: What wrong did your ancestors find in MeThat they abandoned MeAnd went after delusion and were deluded?(6)They never asked themselves, “Where is GOD, Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,Who led us through the wilderness,A land of deserts and pits,A land of drought and darkness,A land nobody had traversed,Where no human being had dwelt?”(7)I brought you to this country of farmlandTo enjoy its fruit and its bounty;But you came and defiled My land,You made My possession abhorrent.(8)The priests never asked themselves, “Where is GOD?” The guardians of the Teaching ignored Me;The rulers rebelled against Me, And the prophets prophesied by BaalAnd followed what can do no good.(9)Oh, I will go on accusing you—declares GOD— And I will accuse your children’s children!(10)Just cross over to the isles of the Kittim and look,Send to Kedar and observe carefully;See if aught like this has ever happened:(11)Has any nation changed its godsEven though they are no-gods?But My people has exchanged its gloryFor what can do no good.(12)Be appalled, O heavens, at this;Be horrified, utterly dazed!—says GOD. (13)For My people have done a twofold wrong:They have forsaken Me, the Fount of living waters,And hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns,That cannot even hold water.(14)Is Israel a bondman?Is he a home-born slave?Then why is he given over to plunder?(15)Lions have roared over him,Have raised their cries.They have made his land a waste,His cities desolate, without inhabitants.(16)Those, too, in Noph and TahpanhesWill lay bare your head. (17)See, that is the price you have paidFor forsaking the ETERNAL your God Who led you in the way.(18)What, then, is the good of your going to EgyptTo drink the waters of the Nile?And what is the good of your going to AssyriaTo drink the waters of the Euphrates?(19)Let your misfortune reprove you,Let your afflictions rebuke you;Mark well how bad and bitter it isThat you forsake the ETERNAL your God, That awe for Me is not in you—declares my Sovereign GOD of Hosts. (20)For long ago you broke your yoke, Tore off your yoke-bands,And said, “I will not work!”On every high hill and under every verdant tree,You recline as a whore.(21)I planted you with noble vines,All with choicest seed;Alas, I find you changedInto a base, an alien vine!(22)Though you wash with natronAnd use much lye,Your guilt is ingrained before Me—declares my Sovereign GOD. (23)How can you say, “I am not defiled,I have not gone after the Baalim”?Look at your deeds in the Valley,Consider what you have done!Like a lustful she-camel,Restlessly running about,(24)Or like a wild ass used to the desert,Snuffing the wind in her eagerness,Whose passion none can restrain,None that seek her need grow weary—In her season, they’ll find her!(25)Save your foot from going bare,And your throat from thirst.But you say, “It is no use.No, I love the strangers,And after them I must go.”(26)Like a thief chagrined when caught,So is the House of Israel chagrined—They, their kings, their officers,And their priests and prophets.(27)They said to wood, “You are my father,”To stone, “You gave birth to me,”While to Me they turned their backsAnd not their faces.But in their hour of calamity they cry,“Arise and save us!”(28)And where are those godsYou made for yourself?Let them arise and save you, if they can,In your hour of calamity.For your gods have become, O Judah,As many as your towns!

(4)Just now you called to Me, “Father!You are the Companion of my youth.

(4)Hear the word of GOD, O House of Jacob, Every clan of the House of Israel!(5)Thus said GOD: What wrong did your ancestors find in MeThat they abandoned MeAnd went after delusion and were deluded?(6)They never asked themselves, “Where is GOD, Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,Who led us through the wilderness,A land of deserts and pits,A land of drought and darkness,A land nobody had traversed,Where no human being had dwelt?”(7)I brought you to this country of farmlandTo enjoy its fruit and its bounty;But you came and defiled My land,You made My possession abhorrent.(8)The priests never asked themselves, “Where is GOD?” The guardians of the Teaching ignored Me;The rulers rebelled against Me, And the prophets prophesied by BaalAnd followed what can do no good.(9)Oh, I will go on accusing you—declares GOD— And I will accuse your children’s children!(10)Just cross over to the isles of the Kittim and look,Send to Kedar and observe carefully;See if aught like this has ever happened:(11)Has any nation changed its godsEven though they are no-gods?But My people has exchanged its gloryFor what can do no good.(12)Be appalled, O heavens, at this;Be horrified, utterly dazed!—says GOD. (13)For My people have done a twofold wrong:They have forsaken Me, the Fount of living waters,And hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns,That cannot even hold water.(14)Is Israel a bondman?Is he a home-born slave?Then why is he given over to plunder?(15)Lions have roared over him,Have raised their cries.They have made his land a waste,His cities desolate, without inhabitants.(16)Those, too, in Noph and TahpanhesWill lay bare your head. (17)See, that is the price you have paidFor forsaking the ETERNAL your God Who led you in the way.(18)What, then, is the good of your going to EgyptTo drink the waters of the Nile?And what is the good of your going to AssyriaTo drink the waters of the Euphrates?(19)Let your misfortune reprove you,Let your afflictions rebuke you;Mark well how bad and bitter it isThat you forsake the ETERNAL your God, That awe for Me is not in you—declares my Sovereign GOD of Hosts. (20)For long ago you broke your yoke, Tore off your yoke-bands,And said, “I will not work!”On every high hill and under every verdant tree,You recline as a whore.(21)I planted you with noble vines,All with choicest seed;Alas, I find you changedInto a base, an alien vine!(22)Though you wash with natronAnd use much lye,Your guilt is ingrained before Me—declares my Sovereign GOD. (23)How can you say, “I am not defiled,I have not gone after the Baalim”?Look at your deeds in the Valley,Consider what you have done!Like a lustful she-camel,Restlessly running about,(24)Or like a wild ass used to the desert,Snuffing the wind in her eagerness,Whose passion none can restrain,None that seek her need grow weary—In her season, they’ll find her!(25)Save your foot from going bare,And your throat from thirst.But you say, “It is no use.No, I love the strangers,And after them I must go.”(26)Like a thief chagrined when caught,So is the House of Israel chagrined—They, their kings, their officers,And their priests and prophets.(27)They said to wood, “You are my father,”To stone, “You gave birth to me,”While to Me they turned their backsAnd not their faces.But in their hour of calamity they cry,“Arise and save us!”(28)And where are those godsYou made for yourself?Let them arise and save you, if they can,In your hour of calamity.For your gods have become, O Judah,As many as your towns!

(1)If you return, O Israel—declares GOD— If you return to Me,If you remove your abominations from My presenceAnd do not waver,(2)And swear, “As GOD lives,” In sincerity, justice, and righteousness—Nations shall bless themselves by youAnd praise themselves by you.

(1)Thus said GOD: The heaven is My throneAnd the earth is My footstool:Where could you build a house for Me,What place could serve as My abode?

(23)And new moon after new moon,And sabbath after sabbath,All flesh shall come to worship Me—said GOD.