TSK · Jeremiah 2:3

You must say to Pharaoh,‘This is what the LORD has said,“Israel is my son, my firstborn,

“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

“All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the LORD, I have given to you.

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries.”

He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.

I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.

But all who destroyed you will be destroyed. All your enemies will go into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered. I will cause those who pillaged you to be pillaged.

Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.

The Party is over for the Rich Woe to those who live in ease in Zion, to those who feel secure on Mount Samaria. They think of themselves as the elite class of the best nation. The family of Israel looks to them for leadership.

For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you– for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.

On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription“HOLY TO THE LORD.” The cooking pots in the LORD’s temple will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar.

If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.