20 Like the nations that Jehovah is destroying from before YOU, that is the way YOU will perish, because YOU will not listen to the voice of Jehovah YOUR God.+

15 And Jehovah will indeed strike Israel down, just as the reed sways in the water;+ and he will certainly uproot+ Israel off this good ground+ that he gave to their forefathers, and he will indeed scatter+ them beyond the River,*+ for the reason that they made their sacred poles,+ so offending+ Jehovah.

7 And it came about because the sons of Israel had sinned+ against Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharʹaoh the king of Egypt,+ and they began to fear other gods;+

17 So they refused to listen,+ and they did not remember+ your wonderful acts that you performed with them, but they hardened their neck+ and appointed a head+ to return to their servitude in Egypt.* But you are a God* of acts of forgiveness,+ gracious+ and merciful,+ slow to anger+ and abundant+ in loving-kindness, and you did not leave them.+