“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo
rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies
Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?
For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused
Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoi
The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purge
You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.