Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and
Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their ow
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vip
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it i
These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their father
How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you w
Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious pres
You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense dar
For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed wort
Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from ever
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for
But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, a
You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of I
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fathe
Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LO
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and
And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He m
“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the
When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her accordin
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselv
The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit
Do not fear, O Jacob, you worm, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One
You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of t
For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”