Isaiah 32:6

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Summary

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

The vile

And his heart

Empty

Bible References

The vile

As the ancient proverb says, Wickedness proceeds from the wicked. But my hand shall not be on you.

And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? The servants who have broken away, each man from his master, have multiplied.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest!

And his heart

To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David. Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

For they have brought their heart near like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps at night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart for you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God.

But each one is tempted by his lusts, being drawn away and seduced by them.

Empty

Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquity without measure?

They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed them.

There is one who scatters and yet increases; but one who withholds just due comes only to poverty.

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals;

that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; and sell the chaff of the wheat?

And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.