The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute[a] them in broad daylight before the Lord so that his burning anger may turn away from Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. 25:4 Or impale, or hang, or expose; Hb obscure

The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders(A) of these people, kill them and expose(B) them in broad daylight before the Lord,(C) so that the Lord’s fierce anger(D) may turn away from Israel.”

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14 And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your ancestors’ place adding even more to the Lord’s burning anger against Israel.

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14 “And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel.(A)

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Because of this, put on sackcloth;
mourn and wail,(A)
for the Lord’s burning anger(B)
has not turned away from us.

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So put on sackcloth,(A)
    lament(B) and wail,
for the fierce anger(C) of the Lord
    has not turned away from us.

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13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.(A)
They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.(B)
Be put to shame by your harvests
because of the Lord’s burning anger.(C)

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13 They will sow wheat but reap thorns;
    they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.(A)
They will bear the shame of their harvest
    because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”(B)

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37 Peaceful grazing land will become lifeless
because of the Lord’s burning anger.(A)

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37 The peaceful meadows will be laid waste
    because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

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24 The Lord’s burning anger will not turn back
until he has completely fulfilled the purposes of his heart.
In time to come you will understand it.(A)

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24 The fierce anger(A) of the Lord will not turn back(B)
    until he fully accomplishes
    the purposes of his heart.
In days to come
    you will understand(C) this.

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45 Come out from among her, my people!(A)
Save your lives, each of you,(B)
from the Lord’s burning anger.

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45 “Come out(A) of her, my people!
    Run(B) for your lives!
    Run from the fierce anger(C) of the Lord.

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