You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbours, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbours by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

“And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbours who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.

And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgements upon all their neighbours who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.”