And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

And he said to me, Let not the words of this prophet's book be kept secret, because the time is near.

Iniquity

As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:

Let them

Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.

But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.