For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.’”
So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”
but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.”
So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour her strongholds.”
So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.
And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the Lord.
who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?
A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the Lord their God.
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.
The Lord goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his zeal; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.
For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest, and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool, and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.
They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.
And he built towers in the wilderness and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.
And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.
He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
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