Isaiah 57:10
Because of the long distance you must travel, you get tired, but you do not say, 'I give up.' You get renewed energy, so you don't collapse.
Jeremiah 2:25
Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, 'It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!'
Jeremiah 18:12
But they just keep saying, 'We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!'"
2 Chronicles 28:22-23
During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord.
Isaiah 47:13
You are tired out from listening to so much advice. Let them take their stand -- the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make monthly predictions -- let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you!
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you constantly go about changing your political allegiances? You will get no help from Egypt just as you got no help from Assyria.
Jeremiah 3:3
That is why the rains have been withheld, and the spring rains have not come. Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute. You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.
Jeremiah 5:3
Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.
Jeremiah 9:5
One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.
Jeremiah 44:17-18
Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles.
Ezekiel 24:12
It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!
Habakkuk 2:13
Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed: The nations' efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
Romans 7:9
And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive