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Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?

All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant.

“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.

He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!

If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”

who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;

The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”