“‘If in spite of these things ¹  you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me, ² 

“Bring trouble ¹  to the Midianites, and destroy them,

I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you ¹  seven times on account of your sins.

“‘If in spite of this ¹  you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me, ² 

I will walk in hostile rage against you ¹  and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

Ephraim’s jealousy will end, ¹  and Judah’s hostility ²  will be eliminated. Ephraim will no longer be jealous of Judah, and Judah will no longer be hostile toward Ephraim.

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one ¹  and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed. ¹ 

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

“‘If you walk in hostility against me ¹  and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction ²  seven times according to your sins.

However, when ¹  they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, ²  by which they also walked ³  in hostility against me ⁴ 

(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and ¹  then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for ²  their iniquity,

When he went out from there, the experts in the law ¹  and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, ²  and to ask him hostile questions ³  about many things,

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your ¹  minds ²  as expressed through ³  your evil deeds,

The prophet ¹  is a watchman ²  over Ephraim ³  on behalf of God, ⁴  yet traps ⁵  are laid for him along all of his paths; ⁶  animosity rages against him in the land ⁷  of his God.

“But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

Surely mockery ¹  is with me; ²  my eyes must dwell on their hostility. ³ 

Of course, ¹  I myself was convinced ²  that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The Philistines ¹  have exacted merciless revenge, ²  showing intense scorn ³  in their effort to destroy Judah ⁴  with unrelenting hostility. ⁵