⁵⁹ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant.^(A)

¹⁹ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will repay him for despising my oath and breaking my covenant.^(A)

⁸ But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil,^(A) there will be wrath and anger.^{(B) 9} There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil:^(C) first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;^(D)

Judging Others^(A)

7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.^{(B) 2} For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.^(C)

¹³ Then he took a member of the royal family and made a treaty^(A) with him, putting him under oath.^(B) He also carried away the leading men^(C) of the land, ¹⁴ so that the kingdom would be brought low,^(D) unable to rise again, surviving only by keeping his treaty. ¹⁵ But the king rebelled^(E) against him by sending his envoys to Egypt^(F) to get horses and a large army.^(G) Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the treaty and yet escape?^(H)

¹⁶ “‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, he shall die^(I) in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose treaty he broke.^(J)

⁴ Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the Lord will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry.

“‘Then you will know that it is I the Lord who strikes you.^(E)

“‘Then you will know that I am the Lord.’^(B)