²³ Then Pharaoh went into his house, and did not take even this to heart.

²¹ And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the field.

⁵ See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.

⁷ And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

⁸ So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

⁹ I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

¹⁰ I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

¹¹ And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

¹² So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.

⁴ And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.

²⁴ But they had no fear and gave no signs of grief, not the king or any of his servants, after hearing all these words.

³ O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

¹¹ Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.

¹ A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

³² Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.

¹⁷ Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

¹⁰ Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

¹⁷ What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

²⁰ And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.

⁴⁶ Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

² If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.