O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they did not feel it; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive chastisement; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

They are all rebellious princes; they walk with deception: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

In thy perverse filthiness thou shalt die because I have cleansed thee, and thou didst not cleanse thyself from thy uncleanness; thou shalt never cleanse thyself again, until I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

And ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him:

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Furthermore, king Ahaz in the time of his distress trespassed even more against the LORD,

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil, and they did not recognize me, said the LORD.

And the fourth angel poured out his vial against the sun; and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire.

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Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one loves bribes and follows after rewards; they do not hear the fatherless in judgment, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them.

neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, with which thou didst testify against them.

I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds.

O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

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But if the scab spreads much abroad in the skin after he has been shown unto the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again;

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the expiation for the guilt, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of the one that is to be purified and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot.

Though thou should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Therefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?

For thus hath the LORD said, Thy breach is incurable, and thy sore is grievous.

Son of man, say unto her, Thou art not clean land, nor art thou sprinkled with rain in the day of indignation.