Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile
As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in thi
“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs,
When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adu
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteou
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that H
The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the tr
Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at t
For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried u
They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows
Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the sc
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the ev
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all th
The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.
“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, a
“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah,
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechar
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.
Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.
“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst