Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You de
Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring o
Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,
Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now y
Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us les
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsake
When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, eve