of these gods is not well known. Apparently they were gods of fate with which Israel was familiar (Maier: 1992a, 1992b). The second stanza assesses damages against the rebellious people (65:12). The verb destine (manah) is a wordplay with Destiny in the previous line. Sword and slaughter indicate some kind of inhumane death, probably in war. The reason for such a penalty lay in the people’s obduracy when the Lord called them to faithfulness. Instead of embracing the Lord and choosing life, they renounced