Be ye not mockers; for your own sakes do not make a mock of God’s word and threatenings, as you use to do.
Lest your bands be made strong; lest thereby you make the judgments of God, which are oft compared to bands, as Psa_66:11 73:4, and elsewhere, more sure and unavoidable, and more severe and terrible, as bands are when they are tied faster and more strongly upon a prisoner.
I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth; God hath assured me that he will utterly root out and destroy the people of Israel; as indeed he did in Hezekiah’s reign.