Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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1 Everything that the people
of Israel do from morning to night is
useless and destructive. Treachery
and acts of violence increase among
them. They make treaties with Assyria
and do business with Egypt.”
2 The Lord has an accusation to
bring against the people of Judah; he
is also going to punish Israel for the
way her people act. He will pay
them back for what they have done.
3 Their ancestor Jacob struggled
with his twin brother Esau while the
two of them were still in their mother's
womb; when Jacob grew up, he
fought against God— note
4 he fought
against an angel and won. He wept
and asked for a blessing. And at
Bethel God came to our ancestor Jacob
and spoke with him. note note note
5 This was
the Lord God Almighty—the Lord
is the name by which he is to be
worshiped.
6 So now, descendants of
Jacob, trust in your God and return
to him. Be loyal and just, and wait
patiently for your God to act.
Further Words of Judgment
7 The Lord says, “The people of
Israel are as dishonest as the Canaanites;
they love to cheat their
customers with false scales.
8 ‘We
are rich,’ they say. ‘We've made a
fortune. And no one can accuse us of
getting rich dishonestly.’
9 But I, the
Lord your God who led you out of
Egypt, I will make you live in tents
again, as you did when I came to you
in the desert. note
10 “I spoke to the prophets and
gave them many visions, and
through the prophets I gave my people
warnings.
11 Yet idols are worshiped
in Gilead, and those who
worship them will die. Bulls are sacrificed
in Gilgal, and the altars there
will become piles of stone in the
open fields.”
12 Our ancestor Jacob had to flee to
Mesopotamia, where, in order to get
a wife, he worked for another man
and took care of his sheep. note
13 The
Lord sent a prophet to rescue the
people of Israel from slavery in
Egypt and to take care of them. note
14 The people of Israel have made the
Lord bitterly angry; they deserve
death for their crimes. The Lord will
punish them for the disgrace they
have brought on him.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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