this would also be an iniquity deserving punishment, for I would have denied God above.
Isaiah 59:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised transgression and deception against the Lord, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 in transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Rebelling against and denying the Lord, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving in and muttering and moaning from the heart words of falsehood. American Standard Version (1901) transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Common English Bible defying and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, planning oppression and revolt, muttering lying words conceived in our minds. Catholic Public Domain Version sinning and lying against the Lord. And we have turned away, not so as to go after our God, and so that we were speaking calumny and transgression. We have conceived, and spoken from the heart, words of falsehood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In sinning and lying against the Lord. And we have turned away so that we went not after our God but spoke calumny and transgression: we have conceived and uttered from the heart words of falsehood. |
this would also be an iniquity deserving punishment, for I would have denied God above.
Otherwise, I might have too much and deny you, saying, ‘Who is the Lord? ’ or I might have nothing and steal, profaning the name of my God.
Therefore the Holy One of Israel says: ‘Because you have rejected this message and have trusted in oppression and deceit, and have depended on them,
For a fool speaks foolishness and his mind plots iniquity. He lives in a godless way and speaks falsely about the Lord. He leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
You have never heard; you have never known; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew that you were very treacherous, and were known as a rebel from birth.
For the vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.
Who was it you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and didn’t remember me or take it to heart? I have kept silent for a long time, haven’t I? , So you do not fear me.
‘If you avoid desecrating the Sabbath, from doing whatever you want on my holy day; if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy day of the Lord honourable; if you honour it, not going your own ways, seeking your own pleasure, or talking business; ,
They seek me day after day and delight to know my ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not abandon the justice of their God. They ask me for righteous judgements; they delight in the nearness of God.’
At that time, when you call, the Lord will answer; when you cry out, he will say, “Here I am.” If you get rid of the yoke among you, the finger-pointing and malicious speaking,
My inheritance has behaved towards me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against me. Therefore, I hate her.
Lord, the hope of Israel, all who abandon you will be put to shame. All who turn away from me will be written in the dirt, for they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.
For my people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves #– # cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God while he was leading you along the way?
Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart #– #only in pretence.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.
However, as a woman may betray her lover, so you have betrayed me, house of Israel. This is the Lord’s declaration.
‘I will make a permanent covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put fear of me in their hearts so that they will never again turn away from me.
You have gone astray at the cost of your lives because you are the ones who sent me to the Lord your God, saying, “Pray to the Lord our God on our behalf, and as for all that the Lord our God says, tell it to us, and we’ll act accordingly.”
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and have gone away.
‘But you say, “The Lord’s way isn’t fair.” Now listen, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair? Instead, isn’t it your ways that are unfair?
Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable actions of every kind.
When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the Lord.
Ephraim surrounds me with lies, the house of Israel, with deceit. Judah still wanders with God and is faithful to the holy ones.
But they, like Adam, have violated the covenant; there they have betrayed me.
when I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim and the crimes of Samaria will be exposed. For they practise fraud; a thief breaks in; a raiding party pillages outside.
Woe to them, for they fled from me; destruction to them, for they rebelled against me! Though I want to redeem them, they speak lies against me.
Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plough there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood –
But whoever denies me before others, I will also deny him before my Father in heaven.
They claim to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed among our members. It stains the whole body, sets the course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
And Joshua said to all the people, ‘You see this stone #– #it will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the Lord said to us, and it will be a witness against you, so that you will not deny your God.’