In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
Do not spurn us, for your name's sake; do not dishonor your glorious throne; remember and do not break your covenant with us.
My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest; she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.
Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage;
“The Lord saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.
And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.
I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!
The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
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