- God says the Israelites are his favorite people, "the apple of his eye." If you mess with them, he'll shake his hand at you. 2:8-9
- "For I set all men every one against his neighbor." 8:10
- "Thus saith the LORD of hosts ... ten men ... shall take
hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew." 8:23
- God will cast out Tyrus and devour it with fire. 9:4
- God will mercilessly "feed the flock of slaughter" by making every one kill his
neighbor. 11:4-7
- "Let the rest eat every one the flesh of another." 11:9
- "Woe to the idle shepherd." He will be mutilated and blinded. 11:17
- God will open his eyes and smite "every rider with madness ... and every horse ...
with blindness." 12:4
- "I [God] make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire ... and they shall devour all the people round about." 12:6
- "I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem." 12:9
- Someday prophets will be killed by their own parents by "thrusting him through when he prophesieth." 13:3
- God will make "all nations" fight against Jerusalem. The women will be "ravished" and half its
people enslaved. 14:1-2
- God will "go forth and fight" for Jerusalem with "his feet" on the mount of
Olives. (After he forces all the nations of the world to fight against Jerusalem.)
14:3
- God will smite the people with plagues that will cause their flesh, eyes,
and tongues to rot away. 14:12
- God will make everyone fight and kill his neighbor. 14:13
- God sends his plagues on animals too. 14:15
- Whoever survives all these plagues and slaughters must worship God. 14:16
- God will "smite the heathen" with a plague. 14:18