then I shall cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given to them, and the house that I have sanctified for My name I shall send away from My face, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and removed Israel to Assyria, and made them live in Halah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the bodies of their detestable idols. Yea, their disgusting things have filled My inheritance.
And I brought you into a garden land to eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you went in, you defiled My land and made My inheritance a disgusting thing.
And Daniel set on his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine of his drinking, and he sought of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
They turn not to the Most High. They are like a treacherous bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of the tongue. This shall be their scorn in the land of Egypt.
And for the sacrifices of My offerings, they sacrifice flesh, and they eat. Jehovah did not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account. They shall turn back to Egypt.
For, behold, they have gone from destruction; Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess the desirable things of their silver; thorns shall be in their tents.
And you shall keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, and shall do them, and the land where I am bringing you to live in it shall not vomit you out.
So thus says Jehovah, Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by a line. And you shall die in a defiled land. And going Israel shall go into exile from his land.
And it shall be, as Jehovah exulted over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah shall exult over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste. And you shall be plucked from the land you are going to possess.
And Jehovah shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall no more see it again. And you shall be sold to your enemies there, for male slaves and slave-girls; and there shall not be a buyer.
I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today that perishing you shall soon perish from off the land to which you are crossing over the Jordan there to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but destroying you shall be destroyed.
And it shall be, as every good thing which Jehovah your God has spoken to you comes to you, so shall Jehovah bring on you every evil thing, until He destroys you from off this good land which Jehovah your God has given to you,