Thematic Bible: Vain talk condemned


Thematic Bible






Should this stream of words go unanswered
and such a talker be acquitted?

Should he argue with useless talk
or with words that serve no good purpose?



The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly,
but the end of his speaking is evil madness.

therefore, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,





Should this stream of words go unanswered
and such a talker be acquitted?

Should he argue with useless talk
or with words that serve no good purpose?



The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly,
but the end of his speaking is evil madness.

therefore, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,





Should this stream of words go unanswered
and such a talker be acquitted?

Should he argue with useless talk
or with words that serve no good purpose?



The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly,
but the end of his speaking is evil madness.

therefore, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,


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