Study Desk

When they had killed their children for their false gods, they went into My holy place on the same day to make it unclean. This is what they did within My house.

"Son of man, speak to the children of your people. Say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men to keep watch for them,

Now, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘If a man does what is right and good, it will not save him when he sins.' And the sins of a sinful man will not make him fall when he turns from his sinful way. But the man who is right and good will not be able to live by his good ways when he sins.

"Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.' But it is their way that is not right.

I will have people, My people Israel, walk on you and own you. You will belong to them, and you will never again take their children from them.'

"The Lord God says, ‘People say to you, "You destroy men and have taken children from your nation.

But you will no longer destroy men and take away your nation's children," says the Lord God.

And they will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children will live in it forever. And My servant David will be their leader forever.

Divide it by drawing names for yourselves and for the people from other lands who live with you and raise their children among you. You are to think of them as if they were born Israelites. They must be given a share of land with you among the families of Israel.

Then the king had those men brought to him who had spoken against Daniel. And they threw them with their wives and children into the hole with the lions. Even before they hit the bottom of the hole, the lions went after them and crushed all their bones.

But as soon as he has risen to power, his nation will be broken and divided to the four winds of heaven. It will not be divided among his own children, or because of his own power. For his power will be taken and given to others besides these.

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to him, "Go and marry a wife who is not faithful in marriage, and have children from that woman. For the land is guilty of not being faithful to the Lord."

I will have no loving-pity on her children, for they are children of her sinful ways.

My people are destroyed because they have not learned. You were not willing to learn. So I am not willing to have you be My religious leader. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your children.

They will eat, but not have enough. They will do sex sins, but the number of their children will not grow because they have not been faithful to the Lord.

They have not been faithful to the Lord, for they have given birth to children who are not His. Now the new moon will destroy them with their land.

Ephraim's greatness will fly away like a bird. There will be no more children born to them, and they will not be able to have children.

Even if they raise children, I will take them away and not leave anyone alive. It will be bad for them when I leave them!

I have seen Ephraim planted in a good field like Tyre. But Ephraim will lead his children out to be killed."

O Lord, what will You give them? Give them children who die before they are born, and make them not able to nurse their babies.