The LORD said, "Look how proud the women of Jerusalem are! They walk along with their noses in the air. They are always flirting. They take dainty little steps, and the bracelets on their ankles jingle.

"Bring King Agag here to me," Samuel ordered. Agag came to him, trembling with fear, thinking to himself, "What a bitter thing it is to die!"

Jehu arrived in Jezreel. Jezebel, having heard what had happened, put on eye shadow, arranged her hair, and stood looking down at the street from a window in the palace.

The wicked do not care about the LORD; in their pride they think that God doesn't matter.

And so they wear pride like a necklace and violence like a robe;

their hearts pour out evil, and their minds are busy with wicked schemes.

There are people who think they are so good---oh, how good they think they are!

That is why the rains were held back, and the spring showers did not come. You even look like a prostitute; you have no shame.

Were they ashamed because they did these disgusting things? No, they were not at all ashamed; they don't even know how to blush. And so they will fall as others have fallen; when I punish them, that will be the end of them. I, the LORD, have spoken."

And I wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the horn that had come up afterward and had made three of the horns fall. It had eyes and a mouth and was boasting proudly. It was more terrifying than any of the others.

whose people were wicked and sinned against the LORD.

Then the LORD said to Abraham, "There are terrible accusations against Sodom and Gomorrah, and their sin is very great.

I must go down to find out whether or not the accusations which I have heard are true."

They called out to Lot and asked, "Where are the men who came to stay with you tonight? Bring them out to us!" The men of Sodom wanted to have sex with them.

He said to them, "Friends, I beg you, don't do such a wicked thing!

But they said, "Get out of our way, you foreigner! Who are you to tell us what to do? Out of our way, or we will treat you worse than them." They pushed Lot back and moved up to break down the door.

"We refuse to listen to what you have told us in the name of the LORD.

We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our king and our leaders, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.

As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.

Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.

"I will destroy you, people of Israel! Then who can help you?