He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”
Peoples will curse him, nations will abhor him;
And you, O desolate one, what will you do?
Although you dress in scarlet,
Although you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold,
Although you enlarge your eyes with paint,
In vain you make yourself beautiful.
Your lovers despise you;
They seek your life.
A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,
And a man of evil devices is hated.
There is no relief for your breakdown,
Your wound is incurable.
All who hear about you
Will clap their hands over you,
For on whom has not your evil passed continually?
A man will be praised according to his insight,
But one of perverse mind will be despised.
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.
“Men will clap their hands at him
And will hiss him from his place.
The righteous will see and fear,
And will laugh at him, saying,
“Then they will go forth and look
On the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their worm will not die
And their fire will not be quenched;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”
[where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.]
“Then they will go forth and look
On the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their worm will not die
And their fire will not be quenched;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”
Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.
The integrity of the upright will guide them,
But the crookedness of the treacherous will destroy them.
Like an archer who wounds everyone,
So is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by.
The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,
But He overthrows the words of the treacherous man.
But transgressors will be altogether destroyed;
The posterity of the wicked will be cut off.
From the fruit of a man’s mouth he enjoys good,
But the desire of the treacherous is violence.
For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it; But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous,
And the treacherous is in the place of the upright.
"And it shall be from new moon to new moon And from sabbath to sabbath, All mankind will come to bow down before Me," says the LORD. "Then they will go forth and look On the corpses of the men Who have transgressed against Me For their worm will not die And their fire will not be quenched; And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind."
He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”
Peoples will curse him, nations will abhor him;
And you, O desolate one, what will you do?
Although you dress in scarlet,
Although you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold,
Although you enlarge your eyes with paint,
In vain you make yourself beautiful.
Your lovers despise you;
They seek your life.
A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,
And a man of evil devices is hated.
There is no relief for your breakdown,
Your wound is incurable.
All who hear about you
Will clap their hands over you,
For on whom has not your evil passed continually?
A man will be praised according to his insight,
But one of perverse mind will be despised.
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.
“Men will clap their hands at him
And will hiss him from his place.
The righteous will see and fear,
And will laugh at him, saying,
“Then they will go forth and look
On the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their worm will not die
And their fire will not be quenched;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”
“Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel;
I will help you,” declares the Lord, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
“Then they will go forth and look
On the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their worm will not die
And their fire will not be quenched;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”
How much less man, that maggot,
And the son of man, that worm!”