And
if ye
walk contrary
unto me,
and
will not hearken unto me;
I will bring
seven times more plagues
upon you
according to your sins.
And it
come
to pass,
when
he heareth
the words
of this curse,
that he
bless himself
in his heart,
saying,
I shall have peace,
though I
walk
in the imagination
of mine heart,
to add drunkenness
to thirst:
The LORD
will not spare him,
but
then the anger
of the LORD
and his jealousy
shall smoke
against that man,
and all
the curses
that
are written
in this book
shall lie upon him,
and the LORD
shall blot
out his name from
under heaven.
And the LORD
shall separate him
unto evil
out of all the tribes
of Israel,
according to all
the curses
of the covenant
that are written in this book
of the law:
For rebellion
is as the sin
of witchcraft,
and stubbornness
is as iniquity
and idolatry.
Because
thou hast rejected
the word
of the LORD,
he hath also rejected thee
from being king.
I know it
is so
of a truth:
but how should man
be just
with God?
He is wise
in heart,
and mighty
in strength:
who hath hardened himself
against him,
and hath prospered?
They are of those
that rebel
against the light;
they know not
the ways thereof,
nor
abide in
the paths thereof.
For God
speaketh once,
yea twice,
yet man
perceiveth it not.
God judgeth the righteous,
and God
is angry
with the wicked every day.
If he
turn not,
he will whet
his sword;
he hath bent
his bow,
and made it ready.
For the wicked
boasteth of his heart's desire,
and blesseth the covetous,
whom
the LORD abhorreth.
Be ye
not as the horse,
or as the mule,
which have
no understanding:
whose mouth
must be held in
with bit
and bridle,
lest
they come near
unto thee.
Seeing
thou hatest instruction,
and casteth
my words
behind thee.
These things
hast
thou done,
and
I kept silence;
thou thoughtest that
I was altogether
such an one
as thyself:
but
I will reprove thee,
and set them
in order
before thine eyes.
Why boastest
thou thyself
in mischief,
O mighty man?
the goodness
of God
endureth continually.
Lo,
this is
the man
that made not God
his strength;
but trusted
in the abundance
of his riches,
and strengthened himself
in his wickedness.
The wicked
are estranged
from the womb:
they go astray
as soon as they
be born,
speaking lies.
Their poison
is like
the poison
of a serpent:
they are like
the deaf adder
that stoppeth her ear;
Which will not hearken to the voice
of charmers,
charming never
so wisely.
But God
shall wound
the head
of his enemies,
and the hairy scalp
of such an one
as goeth on
still in his trespasses.
And might not be
as their fathers,
a stubborn
and rebellious generation;
a generation that set
not their heart aright,
and whose spirit
was not stedfast
with God.
But my people
would not hearken
to my voice;
and Israel
would
none of me.
So I
gave
them up
unto their own hearts' lust:
and they
walked
in their own counsels.
They know not,
neither will
they understand;
they walk on
in darkness:
all
the foundations
of the earth
are out of course.
Harden not
your heart,
as in the provocation,
and
as in the day
of temptation
in the wilderness:
Yea,
they despised
the pleasant land,
they believed not
his word:
But murmured
in their tents,
and hearkened not
unto the voice
of the LORD.
Because
they rebelled
against the words
of God,
and contemned
the counsel
of the most High:
Therefore he
brought down
their heart
with labour;
they fell down,
and there was none
to help.
Because
I have called,
and ye refused;
I have stretched out
my hand,
and
no man regarded;
But ye
have set
at nought
all my counsel,
and would none of my reproof:
I also will laugh
at your calamity;
I will mock
when your fear cometh;
When your fear
cometh as desolation,
and your destruction
cometh as a whirlwind;
when distress
and anguish
cometh upon you.
Then shall
they
call upon me,
but
I will not answer;
they shall seek me early,
but
they shall not find me:
For that
they hated
knowledge,
and did not choose
the fear
of the LORD:
They would none of my counsel:
they despised all
my reproof.
The integrity
of the upright
shall guide them:
but the perverseness
of transgressors
shall destroy them.
Correction is grievous
unto him that
forsaketh the way:
and he
that
hateth
reproof shall die.
He that
keepeth
the commandment
keepeth his own soul;
but he
that
despiseth
his ways
shall die.
A wicked man
hardeneth his face:
but
as for the upright,
he directeth his way.
As a dog
returneth to his vomit,
so a fool
returneth to his folly.
He that
covereth
his sins
shall not prosper:
but whoso
confesseth
and forsaketh them
shall have mercy.
He,
that being often reproved
hardeneth his neck,
shall suddenly be destroyed,
and
that without remedy.
Because
sentence
against an evil work
is not executed speedily,
therefore the heart
of the sons
of men
is fully set
in them to do evil.
But it
shall not be well
with the wicked,
neither shall
he prolong
his days,
which are as a shadow;
because
he feareth not
before God.
Let favour
be shewed
to the wicked,
yet will
he not learn
righteousness:
in the land
of uprightness
will
he deal unjustly,
and will not behold
the majesty
of the LORD.
To whom
he said,
This is the rest
wherewith
ye may cause
the weary
to rest;
and this
is the refreshing:
yet
they would not hear.
Rise up,
ye women
that are at ease;
hear my voice,
ye careless daughters;
give ear
unto my speech.
Many days
and years
shall
ye be troubled,
ye careless women:
for the vintage
shall fail,
the gathering
shall not come.
Tremble,
ye women
that are at ease;
be troubled,
ye careless ones:
strip you,
and make
you bare,
and gird sackcloth
upon your loins.
But this
is a people
robbed
and spoiled;
they
are all of them
snared in holes,
and
they are
hid in prison houses:
they are for a prey,
and none delivereth;
for a spoil,
and none saith,
Restore.
Who among you
will give ear
to this?
who will hearken
and hear
for the time
to come?
Who gave
Jacob for a spoil,
and Israel
to the robbers?
did not the LORD,
he against whom
we have sinned?
for they
would not walk
in his ways,
neither were
they obedient
unto his law.
Therefore he
hath poured
upon him the fury
of his anger,
and the strength
of battle:
and it
hath set him
on fire round about,
yet he
knew not;
and it
burned him,
yet he
laid it
not to heart.
Hearken unto me,
ye stouthearted,
that are far
from righteousness:
Because
I knew that
thou art obstinate,
and thy
neck
is an iron sinew,
and thy brow brass;
Yea,
thou heardest not;
yea,
thou knewest not;
yea,
from that time
that thine ear
was not opened:
for I
knew that thou
wouldest deal
very treacherously,
and wast called
a transgressor
from the womb.
And of whom hast
thou been afraid
or feared,
that thou
hast lied,
and hast not remembered me,
nor laid it
to thy heart?
have not
I held
my peace
even of old,
and
thou fearest me not?
Therefore will
I number you
to the sword,
and
ye shall all bow down
to the slaughter:
because
when I called,
ye did not answer;
when I spake,
ye did not hear;
but did evil
before mine eyes,
and did choose that
wherein I
delighted not.
And
yet for all
this her treacherous sister Judah
hath not turned
unto me
with her whole heart,
but feignedly,
saith the LORD.
Hear now this,
O foolish people,
and
without understanding;
which have eyes,
and see not;
which have ears,
and hear not:
Fear ye not me?
saith the LORD:
will
ye not tremble
at my presence,
which have placed
the sand
for the bound
of the sea
by a perpetual decree,
that it
cannot pass it:
and
though the waves
thereof toss themselves,
yet can
they not prevail;
though they roar,
yet can
they not pass
over it?
But this people
hath
a revolting
and a rebellious heart;
they are revolted
and gone.
Neither say
they
in their heart,
Let us
now fear
the LORD our God,
that giveth rain,
both the former
and the latter,
in his season:
he reserveth
unto us the appointed weeks
of the harvest.
To whom
shall
I speak,
and give warning,
that they
may hear?
behold,
their ear
is uncircumcised,
and
they cannot hearken:
behold,
the word
of the LORD
is unto them a reproach;
they
have
no delight in it.
Thus saith the LORD,
Stand
ye in the ways,
and see,
and ask for
the old paths,
where is the good way,
and walk therein,
and
ye shall find
rest
for your souls.
But they said,
We will not walk
therein.
Also I set watchmen
over you,
saying,
Hearken
to the sound
of the trumpet.
But they said,
We will not hearken.
Hear,
O earth:
behold,
I will bring evil
upon this people,
even the fruit
of their thoughts,
because
they have not hearkened
unto my words,
nor to my law,
but rejected it.
And now,
because
ye have done all
these works,
saith the LORD,
and
I spake unto you,
rising up early
and speaking,
but ye
heard not;
and I
called you,
but
ye answered not;
Therefore will
I do
unto this house,
which is called
by my name,
wherein ye trust,
and
unto the place
which I
gave to you
and to your fathers,
as I
have done
to Shiloh.
But
they hearkened not,
nor inclined
their ear,
but walked
in the counsels
and in the imagination
of their evil heart,
and went backward,
and not forward.
But
thou
shalt say unto them,
This
is
a nation
that obeyeth not
the voice
of the LORD their God,
nor receiveth correction:
truth is perished,
and is cut off
from their mouth.
Why then
is
this
people
of Jerusalem slidden
back by a perpetual backsliding?
they hold
fast deceit,
they refuse
to return.
I hearkened
and heard,
but they
spake
not aright:
no man
repented him
of his wickedness,
saying,
What
have
I done?
every one
turned
to his course,
as the horse
rusheth into the battle.
Yea,
the stork
in the heaven
knoweth
her appointed times;
and the turtle
and the crane
and the swallow
observe
the time
of their coming;
but my people
know not the judgment
of the LORD.
The harvest
is past,
the summer
is ended,
and
we are not saved.
They
have made it desolate,
and being
desolate
it mourneth unto me;
the whole land
is made desolate,
because no man
layeth it
to heart.
But
if ye
will not hear it,
my soul
shall weep
in secret places
for your pride;
and mine
eye
shall weep sore,
and run down
with tears,
because
the LORD's flock
is carried away captive.
I have seen
thine adulteries,
and thy neighings,
the lewdness
of thy whoredom,
and thine abominations
on the hills
in the fields.
Woe unto thee,
O Jerusalem!
wilt
thou not be made clean?
when shall
it once be?
Thus
saith
the LORD
unto this people,
Thus
have
they loved
to wander,
they have not refrained
their feet,
therefore the LORD
doth not accept them;
he will now remember
their iniquity,
and visit
their sins.
Thou hast forsaken me,
saith the LORD,
thou art
gone backward:
therefore will
I stretch out
my hand
against thee,
and destroy thee;
I am
weary
with repenting.
And
I will fan them
with a fan
in the gates
of the land;
I will bereave them
of children,
I will destroy
my people
since they
return not
from their ways.
And
ye have done worse
than your fathers;
for,
behold,
ye walk every one
after the imagination
of his evil heart,
that they
may not hearken unto me:
But
they obeyed not,
neither inclined
their ear,
but made
their neck stiff,
that they
might not hear,
nor receive
instruction.
And they said,
There
is
no hope:
but we
will walk
after our own devices,
and
we will every one
do the imagination
of his evil heart.
I spake unto thee
in thy prosperity;
but thou saidst,
I will not hear.
This hath been
thy manner
from thy youth,
that thou
obeyedst not
my voice.
Because
they have not hearkened
to my words,
saith the LORD,
which I
sent
unto them by my servants
the prophets,
rising up early
and sending them;
but
ye would not hear,
saith the LORD.
They are not humbled even
unto this day,
neither have
they feared,
nor walked
in my law,
nor
in my statutes,
that I set
before you
and before your fathers.
As for the word
that thou
hast spoken
unto us
in the name
of the LORD,
we will not hearken
unto thee.
But we
will certainly do whatsoever
thing
goeth forth
out of our own mouth,
to burn
incense
unto the queen
of heaven,
and to pour
out drink offerings
unto her,
as we
have done,
we,
and our fathers,
our kings,
and our princes,
in the cities
of Judah,
and
in the streets
of Jerusalem:
for then
had
we plenty
of victuals,
and were well,
and saw
no evil.
And they,
whether they
will hear,
or whether
they will forbear,
(for they
are a rebellious house,)
yet shall know
that there hath been
a prophet
among them.
For thou art
not sent
to a people
of a strange speech
and of an hard language,
but to the house
of Israel;
Not to many people
of a strange speech
and of an hard language,
whose words
thou canst
not understand.
Surely,
had I
sent thee
to them,
they would have hearkened
unto thee.
But
the house
of Israel
will not hearken
unto thee;
for they will not hearken
unto me:
for all
the house
of Israel
are impudent
and hardhearted.
Yet
if thou
warn the wicked,
and
he turn not
from his wickedness,
nor
from his wicked way,
he shall die
in his iniquity;
but
thou hast delivered
thy soul.
And I
will make
thy tongue
cleave
to the roof
of thy mouth,
that thou
shalt be dumb,
and shalt not be
to them a reprover:
for they
are a rebellious house.
Son of man,
thou dwellest in the midst
of a rebellious house,
which have
eyes to see,
and see not;
they have ears
to hear,
and hear not:
for they
are a rebellious house.
But
they
rebelled against me,
and
would not hearken unto me:
they
did not
every man
cast away
the abominations
of their eyes,
neither did
they forsake
the idols
of Egypt:
then I said,
I will pour
out my fury
upon them,
to accomplish my anger
against them
in the midst
of the land
of Egypt.
But
the house
of Israel
rebelled
against me
in the wilderness:
they walked not
in my statutes,
and
they despised
my judgments,
which if a man do,
he shall even live in them;
and my sabbaths
they greatly polluted:
then I said,
I would pour
out my fury
upon them
in the wilderness,
to consume them.
Notwithstanding
the children
rebelled against me:
they walked not
in my statutes,
neither kept
my judgments
to do them,
which if a man do,
he shall even live in them;
they polluted my sabbaths:
then I said,
I would pour
out my fury
upon them,
to accomplish my anger
against them
in the wilderness.
Then whosoever heareth
the sound
of the trumpet,
and taketh
not warning;
if the sword come,
and take him away,
his blood
shall be
upon his own head.
As it is written
in the law
of Moses,
all this evil
is come upon us:
yet made
we not
our prayer
before the LORD our God,
that we
might turn
from our iniquities,
and understand
thy truth.
Ephraim
is joined
to idols:
let him alone.
They will not frame
their doings
to turn
unto their God:
for the spirit
of whoredoms
is in the midst
of them,
and
they have not known
the LORD.
Woe unto them!
for they have fled from me:
destruction
unto them!
because
they
have transgressed against me:
though I
have redeemed them,
yet
they have spoken
lies against me.
Though I
have bound
and strengthened
their arms,
yet do
they imagine mischief
against me.
As they
called them,
so they
went from them:
they sacrificed
unto Baalim,
and burned
incense
to graven images.
And my people
are bent
to backsliding from me:
though they
called them
to the most High,
none at all would exalt him.
But
they refused
to hearken,
and pulled away
the shoulder,
and stopped
their ears,
that they
should not hear.
Yea,
they made their hearts
as an adamant stone,
lest
they should hear
the law,
and the words
which the LORD
of hosts
hath sent
in his spirit
by the former prophets:
therefore came
a great wrath
from the LORD
of hosts.
Therefore it
is come
to pass,
that as he cried,
and
they would not hear;
so they cried,
and
I would not hear,
saith the LORD
of hosts:
If ye
will not hear,
and
if ye
will not lay it
to heart,
to give
glory
unto my name,
saith the LORD
of hosts,
I will even send a curse
upon you,
and
I will curse
your blessings:
yea,
I have cursed them already,
because
ye do not lay it
to heart.
Ye have wearied
the LORD
with your words.
Yet ye say,
Wherein
have
we wearied him?
When ye say,
Every one that
doeth
evil is good
in the sight
of the LORD,
and
he delighteth in them;
or,
Where is the God
of judgment?
But whereunto shall
I liken
this generation?
It is like
unto children
sitting in the markets,
and calling
unto their fellows,
And saying,
We have piped
unto you,
and
ye have not danced;
we have mourned
unto you,
and
ye have not lamented.
For John
came neither eating
nor drinking,
and they say,
He hath
a devil.
The Son of man
came
eating and drinking,
and they say,
Behold a man gluttonous,
and a winebibber,
a friend
of publicans
and sinners.
But wisdom
is justified
of her children.
Then began
he to upbraid
the cities wherein most
of his mighty works
were done,
because
they repented not:
Woe unto thee,
Chorazin!
woe unto thee,
Bethsaida!
for if the mighty works,
which were done
in you,
had been done
in Tyre
and Sidon,
they would have repented long
ago in sackcloth
and ashes.
For this
people's heart
is waxed gross,
and their ears
are dull
of hearing,
and their eyes
they have closed;
lest at any time
they should see
with their eyes
and hear
with their ears,
and should understand
with their heart,
and should be converted,
and
I should heal them.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
thou
that killest the prophets,
and stonest them
which are sent
unto thee,
how often would
I have gathered
thy children
together,
even as
a hen
gathereth
her chickens
under her wings,
and ye would not!
For as in the days
that were before the flood
they were eating
and drinking,
marrying
and giving
in marriage,
until the day
that Noe
entered
into the ark,
And knew not until
the flood came,
and took them
all away;
so shall also
the coming
of the Son of man be.
But and
if that evil servant
shall say
in his heart,
My lord
delayeth his coming;
And shall begin
to smite
his fellowservants,
and to eat and drink
with the drunken;
The lord
of that servant
shall come in a day
when
he looketh
not for him,
and in an hour
that
he is not aware of,
And shall cut him asunder,
and appoint him
his portion
with the hypocrites:
there shall be weeping
and gnashing
of teeth.
Saying,
I have sinned
in that
I have betrayed
the innocent blood.
And they said,
What
is
that to us?
see thou to that.
And
when
he had looked round
about on them with anger,
being grieved
for the hardness
of their hearts,
he saith unto the man,
Stretch forth thine hand.
And
he stretched it out:
and his hand
was restored whole
as the other.
There were
present
at that season
some
that told him
of the Galilaeans,
whose blood Pilate
had mingled
with their sacrifices.
And Jesus
answering
said unto them,
Suppose
ye that
these Galilaeans
were
sinners above all the Galilaeans,
because
they suffered
such things?
I tell you,
Nay:
but,
except ye repent,
ye shall all
likewise perish.
And
he said unto him,
If they
hear not Moses
and the prophets,
neither will
they be persuaded,
though one rose
from the dead.
Ye stiffnecked
and uncircumcised
in heart
and ears,
ye do always resist
the Holy Ghost:
as your fathers did,
so do ye.
Or despisest
thou the riches
of his goodness
and forbearance
and longsuffering;
not knowing
that the goodness
of God
leadeth thee
to repentance?
But
after thy hardness
and impenitent heart
treasurest up
unto thyself wrath
against the day
of wrath
and revelation
of the righteous judgment
of God;
And lest,
when
I come again,
my God
will humble me
among you,
and that
I shall bewail many which
have sinned already,
and have not repented
of the uncleanness
and fornication
and lasciviousness
which they
have committed.
Harden not
your hearts,
as in the provocation,
in the day
of temptation
in the wilderness:
For ye
know how
that afterward,
when
he would have inherited
the blessing,
he was rejected:
for he
found
no place
of repentance,
though he
sought it
carefully with tears.
Remember therefore
from whence
thou art fallen,
and repent,
and do
the first works;
or else
I will come
unto thee quickly,
and will remove
thy candlestick
out of his place,
except thou repent.
Repent;
or else
I will come
unto thee quickly,
and will fight
against them
with the sword
of my mouth.
And
I gave
her space
to repent
of her fornication;
and
she repented not.
Behold,
I will cast her
into a bed,
and them that
commit adultery
with her
into great tribulation,
except they
repent
of their deeds.
Remember therefore how
thou hast received
and heard,
and hold fast,
and repent.
If therefore
thou shalt not watch,
I will come
on thee
as a thief,
and
thou shalt not know
what hour
I will come upon thee.
And the rest
of the men
which were not killed
by these plagues
yet repented not
of the works
of their hands,
that they
should not worship
devils,
and idols
of gold,
and silver,
and brass,
and stone,
and of wood:
which neither
can see,
nor hear,
nor walk:
Neither repented
they
of their murders,
nor
of their sorceries,
nor
of their fornication,
nor
of their thefts.
And men
were scorched
with great heat,
and blasphemed
the name of God,
which hath
power
over these plagues:
and
they repented not
to give him glory.
And there fell
upon men
a great hail
out of heaven,
every stone
about the weight
of a talent:
and men
blasphemed God
because of the plague
of the hail;
for the plague
thereof was exceeding great.