Yahweh Abhors Israel’s Pride

⁸ My Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself, declares^[a] Yahweh, the God of hosts: “I abhor the pride of Jacob and I hate his citadel fortresses and I will deliver the city and its fullness!” ⁹ And then if ten people remain in one house, they too will die. ¹⁰ And if one’s relative, who burns the body, lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, “Are there any more with you?” and he will say, “None,” then he will say, “Silence,” because we must not invoke the name of Yahweh. ¹¹ Look, Yahweh is going to command and the great house will be destroyed to bits and the little house to pieces. ¹² Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen?^[b] But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood! ¹³ You who rejoice over Lo-Debar, who say, “Have we not taken Karnaim for ourselves by our strength?” ¹⁴ Indeed, I am going to raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, declares^[c] Yahweh, the God of hosts. And they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath up to the wadi of the Arabah.