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For Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Therefore will I deal with thee just as thou hast dealt,- In that thou didst despise an oath by breaking a covenant. Verse ConceptsPunishment, According To DeedsEquality Of PunishmentBreaking The Covenant

Not like the covenant which I solemnised with their fathers, In the day when I grasped their hand, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt, - In that, they, brake my covenant Though, I, had become a husband unto them, Declareth Yahweh. Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTHusbandsKnowing God, Effects OfMarriage, Between God And His PeopleRejection Of God, Results OfUnfaithfulness, To GodUnion With Christ, Nature OfUnity, God's Goal OfBreaking The CovenantMarriage To GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod As A Husband

And Yahweh said unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what apostate Israel, did? She used to go upon every high mountain and beneath every green tree, and commit unchastity there. And I said, after she had been doing all these things, Unto me, shall thou return? and she returned not, - and her treacherous sister Judah saw it! Though she saw that for all this, apostate Israel having committed adultery, I had sent her away, and had given a scroll of divorcement unto her, yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but, she also, went and committed unchastity.

Therefore say thou unto the house of Israel. Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, Is it in the way of your fathers, you are defiling yourselves,- And after their abominations, that ye are committing lewdness Verse ConceptsAbominations, Idolatry IsImitating Wicked PeoplePeople Polluting ThemselvesThe Great Prostitute

But I said unto their children in the desert, In the statutes of your fathers, let it not be that ye walk, And their regulations, let it not be that ye observe, - And with their manufactured gods, let it not be that ye defile yourselves. Verse ConceptsBad ParentsFalse ReligionExamples, Badevil, warnings againstChildren, attitudes towardsNot Imitating EvilPollution ForbiddenAvoiding IdolatryParents Being Wrongstatues

but, we will certainly do, the whole thing that hath gone forth out of our own mouth, by burning incense to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out to her drink-offerings, just as we and our fathers, and our kings and our princes, did, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, then were we filled with bread and became prosperous, and calamity, saw we none; Verse ConceptsRoadsSelf Delusion


That they may come unto thee as people do come And may sit before thee as my people, And they will hear thy words, But the, words themselves, they not do, - though fond with their mouths, they seem to be, After their unjust gain, their heart is going. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofComplacencyethics, incentives towardsGreed, Condemnation OfHabitsHonorHypocrisy, Description OfProfitsFleeting ImpressionsWorship, Hindrances ToCovetousness, Nature ofHypocrites, Description OfProfessingShallownessLack Of MeaningMere TalkOther People Of GodLoving God's ThingsCovetousnessGreedBeauty And Self Worthpractice

Hypocrites! well prophesied concerning you, Isaiah, saying - This people, with the lips, do, honour, me, while, their heart, far off, holdeth from me; But, in vain, do they pay devotions unto me, teaching, for teachings, the commandments of men.

I - I, am he that comforteth you, - Who art, thou, that thou hast feared Frail man that dieth, and A son of the earthborn, who, as grass, shall be delivered up? Verse ConceptsGrassMan As GrassFear Of ManFear, Overcome ByThe Spirit Of GodGod Will ComfortLike GrassMere Men

Now when, Pharaoh, had drawn near, the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and lo! the Egyptians, moving along after them and they feared greatly, and the sons of Israel made outcry unto Yahweh. Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples OfCrying To GodFearing Other People

Wherefore then is Yahweh bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones, will become a prey! Would it not be well for us to go back towards Egypt? Verse ConceptsdoubtersFaint HeartednessWhy Does God Do This?


That they may come unto thee as people do come And may sit before thee as my people, And they will hear thy words, But the, words themselves, they not do, - though fond with their mouths, they seem to be, After their unjust gain, their heart is going. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofComplacencyethics, incentives towardsGreed, Condemnation OfHabitsHonorHypocrisy, Description OfProfitsFleeting ImpressionsWorship, Hindrances ToCovetousness, Nature ofHypocrites, Description OfProfessingShallownessLack Of MeaningMere TalkOther People Of GodLoving God's ThingsCovetousnessGreedBeauty And Self Worthpractice

For, from the least of them, even unto the greatest of them, Every one, graspeth with greed, - And from the prophet even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely; Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofGreed, Condemnation OfPriests, Function In Ot TimesProfitsCovetousness, Example OfWicked ProphetsGreat And SmallCovetousnessGreedpractice

Ye, are doing the works of your father. They said unto him - We, of fornication, were not born: One father, have we - God. Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked PeopleAvoid Immorality

They made answer unto him - Seed of Abraham, are we, and, unto no one, have been brought into bondage, at any time: How sayest, thou, Free, shall ye be made? Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsPride, Examples OfSecurityTrust, Lack OfMisunderstood Truth

Thus, saith Yahweh, - After this manner, will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfDestruction Of JerusalemGod Opposes The Proudarrogance

And are not just like Moses, who kept putting a veil upon his face, so that the sons of Israel should not look steadily unto the end of that which was to be done away. But their thoughts were turned into stone: for, until this very day, the same veil, upon the reading of the old covenant, abideth, not to be removed, because, in Christ, it is to be done away; But, until this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil upon their heart, doth lie;

For, they who were dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not recognising him, have, by judging him, fulfilled, the very voices of the prophets which every sabbath are being read; Verse ConceptsIgnorance, Of ChristRulersNot Knowing About ChristReading The ScripturesCondemning JesusOn The SabbathScriptures FulfilledWritten In The Prophets

Remember - do not forget, how thou didst provoke Yahweh thy God, in the desert, - yea from the day when thou earnest forth out of the and of Egypt until ye entered as far as this place, have ye been quarrelling, with Yahweh. Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelSin, Nature OfPainful Memories

Ye have been quarrelling, with Yahweh, - from the day that I first knew you. Verse ConceptsRebellion against God

I, am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but nurtured in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, - trained after the strictness of our ancestral law; being jealous for God just as, all ye, are this day; Verse ConceptsEducation, Examples OfPaul, Life OfSelf ConfidenceLegalismSitting At The FeetSchoolsTaking The Law To HeartEducationSchoolzealots

Now they have heard it rumoured concerning thee, that, an apostacy, art thou teaching, from Moses, unto all the Jews, who are among the nations, telling them not to be circumcising their children, nor, by the customs, to be walking. Verse ConceptsCustomPersecution, Forms OfUncircumcisionApostasy, Types OfMisteachingNecessity Of CircumcisionThe Gospel To Jew And Gentileapostasy

For we have heard him saying - This Jesus the Nazarene, will overthrow this place, and will change the customs which, Moses, delivered unto us. Verse ConceptsAbolitionDestruction Of The Temple

Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem apostatized with an enduring apostacy, - Taken fast hold of deceit, Refused to come back? Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forUnceasingContinual SinMen DeceivingBackslidersapostasy

Hath a nation, changed gods, although they were No-gods? Yet my people have changed my glory for that which could not profit! Be amazed, O ye heavens, at this, - And shudder, be dried up utterly, Urgeth Yahweh. For two wicked things, have my people committed, - Me, have they forsaken a fountain of living water, To hew out for themselves cisterns broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.

Hear O heavens, And give ear, O earth, for Yahweh, hath spoken: - Sons, have I brought up, and advanced, And, they, have rebelled against me. Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RebellionLordship, Human And DivinePay Attention To God!Rebellion against GodRaising ChildrenListening To GodTaking Care Of The Earth

Then Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou wast fat, Thou wast thick, Thou wast gorged, So he forsook the GOD who made him, And treated as foolish his Rock of salvation. Verse ConceptsFatnessAbandonmentGod, The RockPerils Of LuxuryRiches, Dangers OfIngratitude To GodRiches, Can Lead ToSalvation, Illustrations OfInfidelity To GodFat PeopleKicking

Then said Yahweh unto How long! must this people, despise me? And how long can they not believe in me. in view of all the signs which I have done in their midst? Verse ConceptsImpenitence, Warnings AgainstMiracles, Responses ToQuestionsUnbelieversNot Believing SignsBefore People ActDoubting God


Who say - Draw near by thyself, Do not approach with me, For I am holier than thou! These, are A smoke in my nostrils, A fire, burning all the day. Verse ConceptsHypocrisy, Description OfNosesPrejudicePride, Examples OfSmokeHypocrites, Description OfFire Of EvilAll DayHolier Than ThouChanging YourselfsmokingSmoke Used Poetically


Who inflame yourselves With the terebinths, Under every green tree - Slaying the children, In the torrent-valleys, Under the clefts of the crags: Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSanctity Of LifeOaksKilling Sons And Daughters

And filled is their land with idols, - To the work of their own hands, do they bow themselves down, To that which they made with their own fingers. Verse ConceptsFingersBowingFilling PlacesPolytheismIdol WorshipWorshiping God


So then Yahweh said unto Moses, - I have looked on this people, and lo! a stiff-necked people, it is. Verse ConceptsNecksStubbornnessStiffnecked PeopleSelf WillGod Seeing The Wicked

And it came to pass in those days when Moses grew up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens, - and saw, an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew - of his brethren, So he turned this way and that, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

And they reviled him, and said - Thou, art, the disciple, of that man; but, we, are, Moses', disciples: - We, know, that, unto Moses, hath God spoken; but, as for this man, we know not whence he is.

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee! if I do not lift up Jerusalem above the head of mine own gladness. Verse ConceptsTongueThings Stuck TogetherForgetting Things