“Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.
“Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.
But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death!
And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.
I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord.
“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know.”
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
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