Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.
I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.
and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”
The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up.
therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.
But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.
who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel, and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”
Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’ Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
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