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 a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";

And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give your counsel. What shall we do?"

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

They crush your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.

And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, "Listen, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

Then all the men who knew that their wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:

Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, 'Peace,' when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash,

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.'

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

"I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.