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Isaiah 56:11

American Standard Version 2015

Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

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The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

And ye have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hearken unto lies.\par

Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.\par

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Why do ye not understand my speech? {\i Even} because ye cannot hear my word.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid {\i my face} and was wroth; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; {\i but} Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling {\i words}), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.\par

Woe unto them! for they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to {\i the will of} God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

Deacons in like manner {\i must be} grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and {\i whose} glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn {\i upon them}.

I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock;

Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle {\i fire on} mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:

And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.

And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.




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