⁵ And all flesh will see that I the Lord have taken my sword out of its cover: and it will never go back.

³⁰ Go back into your cover. In the place where you were made, in the land from which you were taken, I will be your judge.

⁹ What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.

⁴⁸ And all flesh will see that I the Lord have had it lighted: it will not be put out.

²⁰ The wrath of the Lord will not be turned back till he has done, till he has put into effect, the purposes of his heart: in days to come you will have full knowledge of this.

¹² In that day I will do to Eli everything which I have said about his family, from first to last.

¹¹ So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.

²³ By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.

⁷ Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

⁸ And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

⁹ And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.

²⁴ Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?

²⁵ Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:

²⁶ And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:

²⁷ And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:

²⁸ Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.

²¹ But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;

²² Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

²³ They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.