3 And now let us conclude a covenant+ with our God to put away+ all the wives and those born from them according to the counsel of Jehovah* and of those trembling+ at the commandment+ of our God, that it may be done according to the law.+

2 “Now all these things my own hand has made, so that all these came to be,”*+ is the utterance of Jehovah. “To this one, then, I shall look, to the one afflicted and contrite in spirit+ and trembling at* my word.+

16 Now it came about that as soon as they heard all the words, they looked at one another in dread; and they proceeded to say to Barʹuch: “We shall without fail tell the king all these words.”+

16 I heard, and my belly began to be agitated; at the sound my lips quivered; rottenness began to enter into my bones;+ and in my situation I was agitated, that I should quietly wait for* the day of distress,+ for [his] coming up to the people,+ [that] he may raid them.