the one great in counsel and powerful in action. Your eyes are on all the ways of the children of men in order to reward each person according to his ways and as the result of his actions.
I will punish you according to what you have done – this is the Lord’s declaration. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around it.” ’
Then say to the people of the land, “This is what the Lord God says about the residents of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their , land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who live there.
I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.
Then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time because of the crimes they have committed.
Therefore, Israel will be abandoned until the time when she who is in labour has given birth; then the rest of the ruler’s brothers will return to the people of Israel.
On that day their strong cities will be like the abandoned woods and mountaintops that were abandoned because of the Israelites; there will be desolation.