The Skeptics Annotated Bible (571 page)

(6.10)
“Behold, their ear is uncircumcised.”

(6.11-12)

11 Therefore
I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children
abroad,
and
upon the assembly of
young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

(6.11)
“I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children … and … young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.”
God just can’t hold in his fury any longer. He will kill everyone: husbands and wives, children and old people.

12 And
their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.

(6.12)
“Their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.”
God will punish the men by taking away their property, including their wives, and giving it to others.

13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall
among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

(6.15)
“They were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall.”
Blush, dammit! Or God will have to kill you.

16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

19
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

(6.19)
“Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.”
God “will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts” because they refuse to do whatever the hell he tells them to do.

20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country?
your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me
.

(6.20)
“Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.”
20 Does God desire animal sacrifices?

21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold,
I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish
.

(6.21)
“I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.”
God will kill pretty much everyone: fathers and sons, family, friends, and neighbors. God plans to kill them all after laying a stumbling block before them.