Isaiah 5:18

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Isaiah 5:18

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

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Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:

And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give your opinion now, what are we to do?

He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Give ear, now, Hananiah; the Lord has not sent you; but you are making this people put their faith in what is false.

Then all the men who had knowledge that their wives were burning perfumes to other gods, and all the women who were present, a great meeting, answering Jeremiah, said,

Because, even because they have been guiding my people into error, saying, Peace; when there is no peace; and in the building of a division wall they put whitewash on it:

And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.

They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.

For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.