¹⁶ therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines,^(A) and I will wipe out the Kerethites^(B) and destroy those remaining along the coast.^(C)

Witnesses Summoned Against Israel

3 Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the Lord has spoken against you^(A)—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:^(B)

¹² Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd;^(A) so they left him and went away.^(B)

⁶ But did not my words^(A) and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors?^(B)

“Then they repented and said, ‘The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve,^(C) just as he determined to do.’”^(D)

Jerusalem Remains Unrepentant

A Lament and Call to Repentance

5 Hear this word, Israel, this lament^(A) I take up concerning you: