² “When someone sins and offends the Lord by deceiving^(A) his neighbor in regard to a deposit,^(B) a security,^[a] or a robbery;^(C) or defrauds^(D) his neighbor;

¹⁶ “Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.^(A)

²² “The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord!^[a](A) He knows,^(B) and may Israel also know. Do not spare us today, if it was in rebellion or treachery against the Lord

¹⁹ For the Lord humbled Judah because of King Ahaz of Judah,^[a] who threw off restraint in Judah and was unfaithful to the Lord.