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Covenant » Who made a covenant with death
Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood!
Hearing » What to hear
Listen to counsel and accept instruction (discipline), that you may be wise in the future.
As I urged you to stay at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that you might command certain men not to teach strange doctrines. They should not pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These myths (false stories) (fabrications) and genealogies stimulate questions and speculation. They do not enhance the administration of God that is by faith.
Pay close attention to the things heard so we do not drift away.
Listen to me, my children: for blessed are those who practice my ways. Hear instruction, do not refuse it and be wise.
Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart and mind to my knowledge.
Apply your heart to instruction (discipline), and your ears to words of knowledge.
Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
Listen house of Israel, Hear the word Jehovah speaks to you.
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Exposes the corruptions in jerusalem and exhorts to repentance
These also stagger from wine and reel from beer. Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine. They reel from beer. They stagger when seeing visions. They stumble when rendering decisions. The tables are covered with vomit and there is no spot without filth. Who is he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast? read more.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. With stammering lips and another tongue he will speak to this people. He said: This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest, and, this is the refreshing. Yet they would not listen. But the word of Jehovah to them was: Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they might go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and caught. Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood! Therefore this is what The Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation. It is a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; whoever believes will not act hastily. I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. Your covenant with death will be annulled. Your agreement with the grave will not stand when the overflowing scourge passes through. Then you will be trampled down by it. As often as it passes through it will take you. Morning by morning it will pass over, and by day and by night. It will be a terror just to understand the report. The bed is too short on which to stretch out, and the cover so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it. Jehovah will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon. That he may do his work, his awesome work, and bring to pass his act, his unusual act. Do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard from the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts that destruction is determined (decreed) upon the whole earth. Give ear and hear my voice. Listen and hear my speech. Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods? When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow the black cummin and scatter the cummin, plant the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? He instructs him in right judgment and his God teaches him. The black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin. But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod. Bread flour must be ground. Therefore he does not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, or crush it with his horsemen. This also comes from Jehovah of Hosts. He is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. With stammering lips and another tongue he will speak to this people. He said: This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest, and, this is the refreshing. Yet they would not listen. But the word of Jehovah to them was: Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they might go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and caught. Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood! Therefore this is what The Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation. It is a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; whoever believes will not act hastily. I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. Your covenant with death will be annulled. Your agreement with the grave will not stand when the overflowing scourge passes through. Then you will be trampled down by it. As often as it passes through it will take you. Morning by morning it will pass over, and by day and by night. It will be a terror just to understand the report. The bed is too short on which to stretch out, and the cover so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it. Jehovah will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon. That he may do his work, his awesome work, and bring to pass his act, his unusual act. Do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard from the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts that destruction is determined (decreed) upon the whole earth. Give ear and hear my voice. Listen and hear my speech. Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods? When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow the black cummin and scatter the cummin, plant the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? He instructs him in right judgment and his God teaches him. The black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin. But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod. Bread flour must be ground. Therefore he does not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, or crush it with his horsemen. This also comes from Jehovah of Hosts. He is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.
Scoffing » Instances of » Rulers of israel
Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
Scorn » Scorners
Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the back of fools.
A wise son heeds his father's instruction (discipline). A scoffer does not listen to discipline (reproof).
Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood!
The thought of foolishness is sin. The mocker is an abomination to men.
A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it. Knowledge is easy to him who discerns.
How long, you simple (stupid) (foolish) ones, will you love simplicity (foolishness) (stupidity)? The scoffers delight in scoffing. Fools hate knowledge!
Jehovah puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but blesses the homes of the just. He has no use for conceited people. He shows loving kindness to the humble.
A scoffer hates the one who reproves him. He will not go to the wise.
Scorning and mocking » Exemplified » Rulers of israel
Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
Sin » Unpardonable, the » Warnings against
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, avoid being carried away with the error of the wicked and falling from your own steadfastness.
Jehovah will never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of Jehovah and / His jealousy will burn against that man. Every curse which is written in this book will rest on him. Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven!
Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.
Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey walking, and he shouted: Nineveh will be overthrown in Forty days.
But if you do not listen to Jehovah but disobey his commands, he will be against you and your king. He was against your fathers because they disobeyed.
and if you leave him to serve foreign gods, he will turn against you and punish you. He will destroy you, even though he was good to you before.
Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
Run for your lives! The angels warned. Do not stop and do not look behind you! Escape to the mountains, or you will die.
Warnings » Examples of
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, avoid being carried away with the error of the wicked and falling from your own steadfastness.
Jehovah will never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of Jehovah and / His jealousy will burn against that man. Every curse which is written in this book will rest on him. Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven!
Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.
Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey walking, and he shouted: Nineveh will be overthrown in Forty days.
But if you do not listen to Jehovah but disobey his commands, he will be against you and your king. He was against your fathers because they disobeyed.
and if you leave him to serve foreign gods, he will turn against you and punish you. He will destroy you, even though he was good to you before.
Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
Run for your lives! The angels warned. Do not stop and do not look behind you! Escape to the mountains, or you will die.