The people of Ephraim try to catch the wind and try to chase the east wind all day. They are very dishonest, violent and destructive. They make treaties with Assyria and take olive oil to Egypt.

He wanted to eat the Carob bean pods the pigs ate, but no one gave him anything to eat.

A deceived

Jehovah asked: Who will deceive Ahab so that he will go and be killed at Ramoth? Some of the angels said one thing, and others said something else,

Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless. He will get nothing in return.

My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them; for the spirit of adultery caused them to go astray. They have played the harlot, departing from their God.

His invisible attributes are clearly seen since the creation of the world. The things made prove His eternal power and divine nature. Mankind has no excuse,

So God dispatches the power of deceit (error) to work in them so that they are allowed to believe what is false.

If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny himself.

The great dragon was thrown down, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was hurled down to the earth, and his angels with him.

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles he had power to do in the sight of the beast. He says to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast that had the wound by a sword and yet lives.

There will no longer be the light of a candle in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you. Your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your spiritistic practice all nations were deceived.

He hurled him into the bottomless pit, and shut it and sealed it over him. He could not deceive the nations anymore till the thousand years ended. After that he must be let loose for a little while.

Is there

Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood!

Jehovah is my strength and my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. Nations come to you from the most distant parts of the world and say: Our ancestors have inherited lies, worthless and unprofitable gods.

What is an idol worth after the carver is done? It is merely a false god. Why trust a speechless image made by human hands from wood or metal?

The evil (lawless) one will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false signs and wonders.

through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron.

General references

Micah said: Now I know that Jehovah will be good to me, since I have a Levite as a priest.

Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

Bring the people who are blind but still have eyes, the people who are deaf but still have ears.