Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Rejection of the law of God
For rebellion [is like] the sin of divination; arrogance [is like] iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has rejected you from [being] king!"
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. When they became many, their sin increased against me; they changed their glory into shame. {They feed on the sin of my people}, {they are greedy} for their iniquity. read more.
And it will be like people, like priest; I will punish them [for] their ways, and I will requite them for their deeds.
And it will be like people, like priest; I will punish them [for] their ways, and I will requite them for their deeds.
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The [statement] of the true proverb has happened to them, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, [after] washing herself, [returns] to wallowing in the mud."
Like the grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season, I saw your ancestors. They themselves came [to] Baal Peor, and they consecrated themselves to shame. And they became detestable things, like {the thing they love}.
And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.
For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.
Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.
those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,
in which also he went [and] proclaimed to the spirits in prison, who were formerly disobedient, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, [while] an ark was being constructed, in which a few--that is, eight souls--were rescued through water.
Like a dog returning to his vomit [is] a fool reverting to his folly.
{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.
Thus says Yahweh concerning this people: "They have loved so much to wander, they have not spared their feet. Therefore Yahweh is not favorable to them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."
He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.
[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding.
because they despised my judgments, and {they did not walk in my statutes}, and my Sabbaths they profaned, for their heart was going after their idols.
"Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, [and] he hides it under his tongue, [though] he spares it and does not let it go [and] holds it back in the midst of his palate,
For they loved the praise of men more than praise from God.