Isa 1:25-26, 2:18, 27:9, Eze 23:27, 37:23, Hos 2:6-17, Mic 5:10-14 | ESV | STEP | I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy .

Isaiah 1:25-26

25 ^aI will turn my hand against you
and will smelt away your ^bdross as with lye
and remove all your alloy.
26 And I will restore your judges ^cas at the first,
and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward ^dyou shall be called the city of righteousness,
the faithful city.”

Isaiah 2:18

18 ^eAnd the idols shall utterly pass away.

Isaiah 27:9

9 Therefore by this ^fthe guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: ^{▼▼Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin}
^hwhen he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no ⁱAsherim or incense altars will remain standing.

Ezekiel 23:27

27 ^jThus I will put an end to your lewdness and ^kyour whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.

Ezekiel 37:23

23 ^lThey shall not ^mdefile themselves anymore ⁿwith their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But ^oI will save them from all the backslidings ^{▼▼Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings} in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and ^qthey shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Hosea 2:6-17

6 Therefore ^rI will hedge up her ^{▼▼Hebrew your} way with thorns,
and ^tI will build a wall against her,
so that she cannot find her paths.
7 She shall pursue her lovers
but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
but shall not find them.
^uThen she shall say,
‘I will go and return to ^vmy first husband,
^wfor it was better for me then than now.’
8 And ^xshe did not know
that it was ^yI who gave her
^zthe grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on ^aaher silver and gold,
^abwhich they used for Baal.
9 Therefore ^acI will take back
my grain in its time,
and my wine in its season,
and ^adI will take away my wool and my flax,
which were to cover her nakedness.
10 Now ^aeI will uncover her lewdness
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
11 ^afAnd I will put an end to all her mirth,
her feasts, her ^agnew moons, her ^ahSabbaths,
and all her ^aiappointed feasts.
12 And ^ajI will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
^akof which she said,
‘These are ^almy wages,
which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
^amand the beasts of the field shall devour them.
13 And ^anI will punish her for ^aothe feast days of the Baals
when she burned offerings to them
and ^apadorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, declares the Lord.

The Lord’s Mercy on Israel

14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
and ^aqbring her into the wilderness,
and ^arspeak tenderly to her.
15 And there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor ^{▼▼ Achor means trouble; compare Joshua 7:26} a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ^atas in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.
16 “And ^auin that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ 17 For ^avI will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.

Micah 5:10-14

10 And ^awin that day, declares the Lord,
^axI will cut off your horses from among you
and will destroy your chariots;
11 ^ayand I will cut off the cities of your land
and throw down all your strongholds;
12 and I will cut off ^azsorceries from your hand,
and ^bayou shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
13 and ^bbI will cut off your carved images
and ^bcyour pillars from among you,
^bdand you shall bow down no more
to the work of your hands;
14 and I will root out your ^beAsherah images from among you
^bfand destroy your cities.