The merchants use dishonest scales; they like to cheat people. Israel said, “I am rich! I am someone with power!” All their money will do them no good because of the sins they have done. “But I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again as you used to do on worship days. I spoke to the prophets and gave them many visions; through them, I taught my lessons to you.” The people of Gilead are evil, worth nothing. Though people sacrifice bulls at Gilgal, their altars will become like piles of stone in a plowed field. Your ancestor Jacob fled to Northwest Mesopotamia where he worked to get a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her. Later the LORD used a prophet to bring Jacob’s descendants out of Egypt; he used a prophet to take care of the Israelites. But the Israelites made the Lord angry when they killed other people, and they deserve to die for their crimes. The Lord will make them pay for the disgraceful things they have done.
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