TSK · Hosea 9:17

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

The Weakness of Other Gods“I said,‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.

He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”

But Micaiah said,“As certainly as the LORD lives, I will say what my God tells me to say!”

Please remember me for good, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.

But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.

The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.

And I will drive you out of my sight just like I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel.’”

Tell them that the LORD says,‘You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws.

You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.

Israel Has Turned Away from the Lord Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver them, but they have lied to me.

“For look, I am giving a command and I will shake the family of Israel together with all the nations. It will resemble a sieve being shaken, when not even a pebble falls to the ground.

“Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying,‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said,“Turn now from your evil wickedness,”’ but they would by no means obey me,” says the LORD.

‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”

Jesus replied,“Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them,‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.’

¶ Salutation From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!