So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the Lord, because of the word of the Lord which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of it,

The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways,
But a good man will be satisfied with his.

“Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your apostasies will reprove you;
Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter
For you to forsake the Lord your God,
And the dread of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord God of hosts.

And those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And those who have not sought the Lord or inquired of Him.”

But My righteous one shall live by faith;

And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.

Crooked

Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;

They do not know the way of peace,
And there is no justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,

Whoever treads on them does not know peace.

so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you

appear as lights in the world,

With the workers

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’

Peace

Indeed, may you see your children’s children.

Peace be upon Israel!

“For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,
But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you,
And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,”
Says the Lord who has compassion on you.

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.

“In that day I will also make a covenant for them
With the beasts of the field,
The birds of the sky
And the creeping things of the ground.
And I will

abolish the bow, the sword and war from the land,

And will make them lie down in safety.

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.

And those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.

General references

Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;

But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.