I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes? ¹ 

The Lord God of Israel who rules over all ¹  says: Change the way you have been living and do what is right. ²  If you do, I will allow you to continue to live in this land. ³ 

You must change ¹  the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly. ² 

But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian ¹  change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots? ² 

But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, ¹  I will cancel the destruction ²  I intended to do to it.

How long will you vacillate, ¹  you who were once like an unfaithful daughter? ²  For I, the Lord, promise ³  to bring about something new ⁴  on the earth, something as unique as a woman protecting a man!’” ⁵ 

“Yet in days to come I will reverse Elam’s ill fortune.” ¹  says the Lord. ² 

He changes times and seasons, deposing some kings and establishing others. ¹  He gives wisdom to the wise; he imparts knowledge to those with understanding; ² 

“The Lord who rules over all said, ‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.

But I will be different now to this remnant of my people from the way I was in those days,’ says the Lord who rules over all,

Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities ¹  in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.

Now when ¹  Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus ²  had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious ¹  day of the Lord comes.

Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,

God exalted him ¹  to his right hand as Leader ²  and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. ³ 

Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord ¹  that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart. ² 

I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, ¹  because I am perplexed about you.

As I urged you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus ¹  to instruct ²  certain people not to spread false teachings, ³ 

and saying, ¹  “Where is his promised return? ²  For ever since ³  our ancestors ⁴  died, ⁵  all things have continued as they were ⁶  from the beginning of creation.”

(Now ¹  the name of the star is ²  Wormwood.) ³  So ⁴  a third of the waters became wormwood, ⁵  and many people died from these waters because they were poisoned. ⁶