Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to them all, “This day is holy to YHWH y’all’s God. Y’all must not mourn nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on YHWH, and say, “Isn’t YHWH among us? No disaster will come on us.”
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding so that we know ʜɪᴍ who is true. And we are in ʜɪᴍ who is true, in ʜɪꜱ Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
for the people themselves are reporting what kind of reception we had with y’all, and how y’all turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,
To those who are without the law, like one without law (though I am not without God’s law, but under the law of Christ), so that I might win those who are without the law.
Look, the days come,” says Lord YHWH, “when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing YHWH’s words.
Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from YHWH.