30 Therefore the Lord God of Israel says: a‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the Lord says: b‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and cthose who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.
31 Behold, athe days are coming that I will cut off your1 arm and the arm of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
32 And you will see an enemy inMy dwelling place, despite all the good which God does for Israel. And there shall not be aan old man in your house forever.
33 But any of your men whom I do not cut off from My altar shall consume your eyes and grieve your heart. And all the descendants of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
34 Now this shallbeaa sign to you that will come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: bin one day they shall die, both of them.
35 Then aI will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in My heart and in My mind. bI will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before cMy anointed forever.
36aAnd it shall come to pass that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and say, “Please,1 put me in one of the priestly positions, that I may eat a piece of bread.” ’ ”
thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation—A successful rival for the office of high priest shall rise out of another family (II Samuel 15:35; I Chronicles 24:3; I Chronicles 29:22). But the marginal reading, "thou shalt see the affliction of the tabernacle," seems to be a preferable translation.
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