5. But listen to what God has to sayto you who reverently respond to his Word:“Your own families hate youand turn you out because of me.They taunt you, ‘Let us see God’s glory!If God’s so great, why aren’t you happy?’But they’re the oneswho are going to end up shamed.”
6. Rumbles of thunder from the city!A voice out of the Temple!God’s voice,handing out judgment to his enemies:
7-9. “Before she went into labor,she had the baby.Before the birth pangs hit,she delivered a son.Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?Has anyone seen anything like this?A country born in a day?A nation born in a flash?But Zion was barely in laborwhen she had her babies!Do I open the womband not deliver the baby?Do I, the One who delivers babies,shut the womb?
17. “All who enter the sacred groves for initiation in those unholy rituals that climaxed in that foul and obscene meal of pigs and mice will eat together and then die together.” God’s Decree.
24. “And then they’ll go out and look at what happenedto those who rebelled against me. Corpses!Maggots endlessly eating away on them,an endless supply of fuel for fires.Everyone who sees what’s happenedand smells the stench retches.”