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Condescension of God » Expostulates with backsliding israel
Bring near your cause, Will say Jehovah; draw near your strong defences, will the king of Jacob say: They shall draw near and announce to us what shall happen: shewed they the former things, what they were, and we will set our heart, and we shall know their latter state; or did we hear things coming? Announce the things coming hereafter, and we shall know that ye are God: also will ye do good or will ye do evil, and we shall look around for help and see together. read more.
Behold, ye are from nothing, and your work no more: an abomination he will choose in you.
Behold, ye are from nothing, and your work no more: an abomination he will choose in you.
And now, thus said Jehovah creating thee, O Jacob, and forming thee, O Israel, Thou shalt not fear, for I redeemed thee; I called by thy name; thou art to me. When thou shalt pass through the waters, I with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou shalt go through fire thou shalt not be burnt, and the flame shall not consume thee. For I Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, saving thee: I gave Egypt expiating thee, Cush and Seba instead of thee. read more.
From that thou wert precious in mine eyes, thou wert honored, and I loved thee: and I will give man instead of thee, and peoples instead of thy soul. Thou shalt not fear, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the sunrisings, and from the west I will gather thee. Say to the north, Thou shalt give, and to the south thou shalt not withhold: bring in my sons from far off, and my daughters from the extremities of the earth; All being called by name: and I created him; for my glory I formed him; also I made him. Bring forth the blind people, and there are eyes; and the deaf, and ears to them. Gather all nations together, and people shall be collected: who among them shall announce this, and will they cause us to hear former things? shall they give their witnesses, and be justified? and will they hear, and say, Truth Ye my witnesses, says Jehovah, and my servants whom I chose: so that ye shall know and trust to me, and understand that I am he: before me was no God formed, and after me shall be none. I, I, Jehovah, and none saving besides me. I announced and I saved, and I caused to hear, and no stranger among you: and ye are witnesses, says Jehovah, and I am God. Also from the day I am he, and none delivering from my hand: I will do and who shall turn it back? Thus said Jehovah redeeming you, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I sent to Babel, and brought down the bars all of them, and the Chaldees shouting in their ships. I Jehovah your Holy One, creating Israel your king. Thus said Jehovah giving a way in the sea, and a beaten path in the strong waters;, Bringing forth the chariot and the horse, the strength and the might together, they shall fall down, they shall not rise: they went out; they were quenched as tow. Will ye not remember the former things? will ye not discern the things of old? Behold me doing a new thing; now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it? I will also set a way in the desert, rivers in the waste.
From that thou wert precious in mine eyes, thou wert honored, and I loved thee: and I will give man instead of thee, and peoples instead of thy soul. Thou shalt not fear, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the sunrisings, and from the west I will gather thee. Say to the north, Thou shalt give, and to the south thou shalt not withhold: bring in my sons from far off, and my daughters from the extremities of the earth; All being called by name: and I created him; for my glory I formed him; also I made him. Bring forth the blind people, and there are eyes; and the deaf, and ears to them. Gather all nations together, and people shall be collected: who among them shall announce this, and will they cause us to hear former things? shall they give their witnesses, and be justified? and will they hear, and say, Truth Ye my witnesses, says Jehovah, and my servants whom I chose: so that ye shall know and trust to me, and understand that I am he: before me was no God formed, and after me shall be none. I, I, Jehovah, and none saving besides me. I announced and I saved, and I caused to hear, and no stranger among you: and ye are witnesses, says Jehovah, and I am God. Also from the day I am he, and none delivering from my hand: I will do and who shall turn it back? Thus said Jehovah redeeming you, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I sent to Babel, and brought down the bars all of them, and the Chaldees shouting in their ships. I Jehovah your Holy One, creating Israel your king. Thus said Jehovah giving a way in the sea, and a beaten path in the strong waters;, Bringing forth the chariot and the horse, the strength and the might together, they shall fall down, they shall not rise: they went out; they were quenched as tow. Will ye not remember the former things? will ye not discern the things of old? Behold me doing a new thing; now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it? I will also set a way in the desert, rivers in the waste.
was sought by them they asked not; I was found by them not seeking me: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation not calling upon my name. I spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes. The people irritating me to my face continually; sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks; read more.
Dwelling among the graves, and they will lodge among the watchers, eating swine's flesh, and broth of unclean things in their vessels. Saying, Come near to thyself; thou shalt not touch upon me, for I was clean to thee. These a smoke in my wrath, a fire burning all the day. Behold, it written before me: I will not be silent, but I requited, and I requited upon their bosom, Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, who burnt incense upon the mountains, and upon the hills they reproached me: and I measured their former work upon their bosom. Thus said Jehovah, As the new wine will be found in the cluster, and he will say, Thou shalt not destroy it, for a blessing in it: thus will I do for sake of my servant, to not destroy them all. And I brought forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah he shall inherit my mountain: and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell their. And Sharon was for a dwelling of sheep, and the valley of Achor for a resting place of the herd, for my people who sought me. And ye forsaking Jehovah, forgetting my holy mountain, and preparing a table for Gad, and filling up for fate from mixed wine. And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat and ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink and ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed. Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name. That he praising himself in the earth shall praise himself in the true God; and he swearing in the earth, shall swear in the true God; for the former straits were forgotten, and because they were hid from mine eyes.
Dwelling among the graves, and they will lodge among the watchers, eating swine's flesh, and broth of unclean things in their vessels. Saying, Come near to thyself; thou shalt not touch upon me, for I was clean to thee. These a smoke in my wrath, a fire burning all the day. Behold, it written before me: I will not be silent, but I requited, and I requited upon their bosom, Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, who burnt incense upon the mountains, and upon the hills they reproached me: and I measured their former work upon their bosom. Thus said Jehovah, As the new wine will be found in the cluster, and he will say, Thou shalt not destroy it, for a blessing in it: thus will I do for sake of my servant, to not destroy them all. And I brought forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah he shall inherit my mountain: and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell their. And Sharon was for a dwelling of sheep, and the valley of Achor for a resting place of the herd, for my people who sought me. And ye forsaking Jehovah, forgetting my holy mountain, and preparing a table for Gad, and filling up for fate from mixed wine. And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat and ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink and ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed. Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name. That he praising himself in the earth shall praise himself in the true God; and he swearing in the earth, shall swear in the true God; for the former straits were forgotten, and because they were hid from mine eyes.
Saying, If a man shall send away his wife, and she went from him and she was to another man, shall he yet turn back to her? Being defiled, shall not that land be defiled? and thou committedst fornication with many shepherds; and turn back to me, says Jehovah. Lift up thine eyes upon the naked hills and see where thou wert not lain with. Upon the ways thou didst sit for them as the ravens in the desert; and thou wilt defile the land with thy fornications and with thine evil And the showers will be withheld, and the latter rain was not; and the forehead of a woman a harlot was to thee, and thou refusedst to be ashamed. read more.
From the time didst thou not call to me, My father, thou the friend of my youth? Will he guard forever? if he will watch to the end? Behold, I spake, and wilt thou do evil, and shalt thou be able? And Jehovah will say to me in the days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou what Israel turning back, did? She went up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and she will commit fornication there. And saying after she did all these, Thou shalt turn back to me. And she turned not back; and her faithless sister Judah will see it And I shall see for all the causes that Israel turning away committed adultery, I sent her away and I shall give a writing of her cutting off to her; and her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, and she will go and commit fornication, she also. And it was her fornication being light, and she will defile the land, and she will commit adultery with stones and with woods. And also in all this her faithless sister Judah turned not back to me with all the heart, but in falsehood, says Jehovah. And Jehovah will say to me, Israel turning away justified her soul above faithless Judah. Go and call these words to the north, and say, Turn back, O Israel, turning away, says Jehovah; I will not cause my face to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says Jehovah, I will not guard forever. Only know thine iniquity that thou didst transgress against Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt scatter thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and to my voice ye heard not, says Jehovah. Turn back, ye sons having turned away, says Jehovah; for I was lord over you: and I took you one from a city and two from a family, and I brought you to Zion. And I gave to you shepherds according to my heart, and they fed you with knowledge and understanding.
From the time didst thou not call to me, My father, thou the friend of my youth? Will he guard forever? if he will watch to the end? Behold, I spake, and wilt thou do evil, and shalt thou be able? And Jehovah will say to me in the days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou what Israel turning back, did? She went up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and she will commit fornication there. And saying after she did all these, Thou shalt turn back to me. And she turned not back; and her faithless sister Judah will see it And I shall see for all the causes that Israel turning away committed adultery, I sent her away and I shall give a writing of her cutting off to her; and her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, and she will go and commit fornication, she also. And it was her fornication being light, and she will defile the land, and she will commit adultery with stones and with woods. And also in all this her faithless sister Judah turned not back to me with all the heart, but in falsehood, says Jehovah. And Jehovah will say to me, Israel turning away justified her soul above faithless Judah. Go and call these words to the north, and say, Turn back, O Israel, turning away, says Jehovah; I will not cause my face to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says Jehovah, I will not guard forever. Only know thine iniquity that thou didst transgress against Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt scatter thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and to my voice ye heard not, says Jehovah. Turn back, ye sons having turned away, says Jehovah; for I was lord over you: and I took you one from a city and two from a family, and I brought you to Zion. And I gave to you shepherds according to my heart, and they fed you with knowledge and understanding.
And ye said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. Hear ye now, O house of Israel; shall not my way make even? shall not your ways make hot even? In the turning back of the just one from his justice, and doing iniquity and dying in them; in his iniquity which he did he shall die. And in the unjust one turning back from his injustice which he did; and he will do judgment and justice, he shall save his soul alive. read more.
And he will see and turn back from all his transgressions which he did, living, he shall live; he shall not die. And the house of Israel said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. Will not my ways make even, O house of Israel, shall not your way not make even? For this I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah: Turn back and withdraw from all your transgressions; and iniquity shall not be to you for a stumbling block. Cast away from you all your transgressions which ye transgressed against me, and make to you a new heart and a new spirit: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel? For I shall not delight in the death of him dying, says the Lord Jehovah: and turn ye back and live.
And he will see and turn back from all his transgressions which he did, living, he shall live; he shall not die. And the house of Israel said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. Will not my ways make even, O house of Israel, shall not your way not make even? For this I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah: Turn back and withdraw from all your transgressions; and iniquity shall not be to you for a stumbling block. Cast away from you all your transgressions which ye transgressed against me, and make to you a new heart and a new spirit: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel? For I shall not delight in the death of him dying, says the Lord Jehovah: and turn ye back and live.
And thou son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus ye said, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pining away in them, and how shall we live? Say to them, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if I shall delight in the death of the unjust; but in the turning back of the unjust one from his way, and he lived: turn back, turn back from your evil ways: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel? And thou, son of man, say to the sons of my people, The justice of the just shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: and the injustice of the unjust, he shall not stumble in it in the day of his turning back from his injustice; and the just shall not be able to live in the day of his sinning. read more.
In my saying to the just, living, he shall live; and he trusted upon his justice, and he did evil, all his justice shall not be remembered; and in his iniquity which he did he shall die in it And in my saying to the unjust, Dying, thou shalt die; and he turned back from his sinning and he did judgment and justice; The unjust shall turn back the pledge he shall restore the spoil, going in the laws of the living not to do evil; living, he shall live, he shall not die. All his sins which he sinned shall not be remembered to him: he did judgment and justice; living, he shall live. And the sons of my people said, The way of Jehovah will not make even: and they their way shall not make even. In the turning back of the just from his justice and doing iniquity, he shall die in them. And in the turning back of the unjust from his injustice and doing judgment and justice upon them, he shall live. And ye said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. I will judge you each according to his ways, O house of Israel.
In my saying to the just, living, he shall live; and he trusted upon his justice, and he did evil, all his justice shall not be remembered; and in his iniquity which he did he shall die in it And in my saying to the unjust, Dying, thou shalt die; and he turned back from his sinning and he did judgment and justice; The unjust shall turn back the pledge he shall restore the spoil, going in the laws of the living not to do evil; living, he shall live, he shall not die. All his sins which he sinned shall not be remembered to him: he did judgment and justice; living, he shall live. And the sons of my people said, The way of Jehovah will not make even: and they their way shall not make even. In the turning back of the just from his justice and doing iniquity, he shall die in them. And in the turning back of the unjust from his injustice and doing judgment and justice upon them, he shall live. And ye said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. I will judge you each according to his ways, O house of Israel.
Hear ye now what Jehovah said: Arise, contend thou with the mountains, and the hills shall hear thy voice. Hear ye mountains the contention of Jehovah, and ye perpetual foundations of the earth: for a contention to Jehovah with his people, and he will dispute with Israel My people, what did I to thee? and in what did I weary thee? answer to me. read more.
For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of servants I redeemed thee; and I shall send before thy face, Moses, Aaron and, Miriam. O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab counseled, and what Balaam son of Beor answered him from the acacias even to Gilgal; in order to know the justice of Jehovah. With what shall I come before Jehovah? I will bow to the high God; shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves, the sons of a year? Will Jehovah delight in thousands of rams, in ten thousands of torrents of oil? shall I give my first-born my transgression? the fruit of my belly, the sin of my soul? He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God? The voice of Jehovah will call to the city, and wisdom feared thy name: hear ye the rod, and who appointed it
For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of servants I redeemed thee; and I shall send before thy face, Moses, Aaron and, Miriam. O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab counseled, and what Balaam son of Beor answered him from the acacias even to Gilgal; in order to know the justice of Jehovah. With what shall I come before Jehovah? I will bow to the high God; shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves, the sons of a year? Will Jehovah delight in thousands of rams, in ten thousands of torrents of oil? shall I give my first-born my transgression? the fruit of my belly, the sin of my soul? He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God? The voice of Jehovah will call to the city, and wisdom feared thy name: hear ye the rod, and who appointed it
For from the days of your fathers ye departed from my laws, and ye watched not. Turn back to me and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies. And ye said, In what shall we turn back? Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: and ye defrauded me, the nation all of it read more.
Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency. And I rebuked upon the eater for you, and he shall not corrupt for you the fruit of the earth; and the vine in the field shall not be barren to you, says Jehovah of armies. And all nations pronounced you happy, for ye shall be a land of delight, said Jehovah of armies. Your words were strong against me, said Jehovah. And ye said, What did we speak against thee? Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies? And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.
Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency. And I rebuked upon the eater for you, and he shall not corrupt for you the fruit of the earth; and the vine in the field shall not be barren to you, says Jehovah of armies. And all nations pronounced you happy, for ye shall be a land of delight, said Jehovah of armies. Your words were strong against me, said Jehovah. And ye said, What did we speak against thee? Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies? And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.
Malachi » Reproves God's people for their impiety
For from the days of your fathers ye departed from my laws, and ye watched not. Turn back to me and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies. And ye said, In what shall we turn back? Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: and ye defrauded me, the nation all of it read more.
Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency. And I rebuked upon the eater for you, and he shall not corrupt for you the fruit of the earth; and the vine in the field shall not be barren to you, says Jehovah of armies. And all nations pronounced you happy, for ye shall be a land of delight, said Jehovah of armies. Your words were strong against me, said Jehovah. And ye said, What did we speak against thee? Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies? And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.
Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency. And I rebuked upon the eater for you, and he shall not corrupt for you the fruit of the earth; and the vine in the field shall not be barren to you, says Jehovah of armies. And all nations pronounced you happy, for ye shall be a land of delight, said Jehovah of armies. Your words were strong against me, said Jehovah. And ye said, What did we speak against thee? Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies? And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.
The Proud » General references to
For behold, the day coming, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all doing injustice were straw: and the day coming burnt them, said Jehovah of armies, that it shall not leave to them root and branch.
Happy the man who set Jehovah his trust, and turned not to the arrogant, and those turning aside to falsehood.
If Jehovah is high, and he will see the humble one: and the lofty one he will know from far off.
Much was our soul filled with it, a derision of those living at ease the contempt of the proud.
He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,
And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
The proud dug pits for me which is not according to thy law.
The proud shall be ashamed, for they acted perversely to me without cause: I will meditate in thy charges
And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.
Wicked people » Prosperity of
To David. Thou shalt not be angry at those doing evil, and thou shalt not envy those working iniquity.
The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand
For the rejoicing of the unjust drawing near, and the gladness of the profane even for a moment
Whoever sinned, doing evil a hundred, and it being prolonged to him, for also I know that it will be to those fearing God, who shall be afraid from his face. And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.
I saw the unjust one making afraid, and spreading abroad as a green native tree. And he shall pass away, and behold, he is not: and I shall seek him and he was not found.
And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.
Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up. For this, the law will be slack, and judgment will not go forth forever: for the unjust surrounds the just; for this perverted judgment will go forth.
I saw the foolish one taking root, and suddenly I shall curse his habitation. His sons shall be far from salvation, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and none delivering. Which his harvest the hungry one will devour, and not from thorns shall they take it, and destruction gaped after their substance.
He wandered about for bread, where he knew that the day of darkness was ready at his hand.
He shall not be rich, and his wealth shall not rise up; their possession shall not extend upon the earth.
In the fulness of his abundance it shall be pressed to him: every laboring hand shall come to him.
Wherefore shall the unjust live? They grew old, also they were strong in power. Their seed was established before their face with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses peace from fear, and the rod of God not upon them. read more.
His ox passed over and will not be cast away: his heifer will escape and will not be barren. They will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap. They will lift up with the drum and harp, and they will rejoice at the voice of the pipe. Their days glided on in good, and in a moment they will lay hold of hades.
His ox passed over and will not be cast away: his heifer will escape and will not be barren. They will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap. They will lift up with the drum and harp, and they will rejoice at the voice of the pipe. Their days glided on in good, and in a moment they will lay hold of hades.
For he shall see the wise shall die: together the fool and the stupid one shall perish, and they left their wealth to others. The midst of them their houses forever, their dwellings to generation and generation; they called in their names upon their lands. And man shall not abide in honor, being like as the beasts they perished. read more.
This their way folly to them: and those after them will delight in their mouth. Silence. As sheep they were laid in hades; death shall rule over them, and the upright shall come down upon them in the morning; and their rock for falling away in hades from a dwelling to him. But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hades, for he will receive me. Silence.
This their way folly to them: and those after them will delight in their mouth. Silence. As sheep they were laid in hades; death shall rule over them, and the upright shall come down upon them in the morning; and their rock for falling away in hades from a dwelling to him. But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hades, for he will receive me. Silence.
For I was envious at the foolish; I shall see the peace of the unjust For not the pains to their death, and their body fat They are not in the trouble of men, and with man they shall not be struck. read more.
For this, pride surrounded them as a neck-chain; the dress of violence will cover to them. Their eye will come forth from fat: they passed over the imaginations of the heart They will mock and speak in evil of oppression: they will speak from elevation. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue will go in the earth. For this, his people will turn back here: and full water shall be sucked out to them. And they said, How did God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? Behold, these the unjust, and they being secure of the world increased riches. Surely in vain I cleansed my heart, and I will wash my hands in cleanness. And I am struck all the day, and my reproofs for the mornings. If I said, I will recount thus; behold, I transgressed against the generation of thy sons. And I shall think to know this, it is labor in mine eyes. Till I shall come to the holy place of God I shall not understand for their latter state. Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins. How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction. As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise their image. For my heart will be embittered, and my loins were hard. And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.
For this, pride surrounded them as a neck-chain; the dress of violence will cover to them. Their eye will come forth from fat: they passed over the imaginations of the heart They will mock and speak in evil of oppression: they will speak from elevation. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue will go in the earth. For this, his people will turn back here: and full water shall be sucked out to them. And they said, How did God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? Behold, these the unjust, and they being secure of the world increased riches. Surely in vain I cleansed my heart, and I will wash my hands in cleanness. And I am struck all the day, and my reproofs for the mornings. If I said, I will recount thus; behold, I transgressed against the generation of thy sons. And I shall think to know this, it is labor in mine eyes. Till I shall come to the holy place of God I shall not understand for their latter state. Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins. How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction. As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise their image. For my heart will be embittered, and my loins were hard. And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.
A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this. In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:
Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure? Thou didst plant them; they took root; they went on, also they made fruit: thou being near in their mouth, and far off from their reins.
Being pure of eyes from beholding evil, and wilt not be able to look upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look upon the transgressors? wilt thou be silent in the unjust swallowing the just above him? And wilt thou make man as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping thing no ruler over him? And he brought up a completion with the book, he will drag him in his net, and he will gather him in his fishnet: for this he will rejoice and be glad. read more.
For this he will sacrifice to his net and burn incense to his fish-net; for by them his portion fat and his food. growing fat For this, will he empty his net; and he will not spare to slay the nations continually.
For this he will sacrifice to his net and burn incense to his fish-net; for by them his portion fat and his food. growing fat For this, will he empty his net; and he will not spare to slay the nations continually.