For you trusted in your evil; you said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it is turning you back; and you said in your heart, I am and there is none besides.
And whom have you dreaded and feared? You have lied and have not remembered Me, not setting it on your heart. Have I not been silent, even from forever, and you have not feared Me?
transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and backsliding from after our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and murmuring words of falsehood from the heart.
O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, Our fathers have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.
Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind; all the day he multiplies lies and ruin. And they cut a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
My people seek advice by their wood, and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of fornication has led them astray, and they fornicated from under their God.
What does an image profit, for its former has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood? For does the former trust in his work on it, to make mute idols?
And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, the one being called the devil, even Satan; the one leading astray the whole inhabited earth, was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
And it leads astray the ones dwelling on the earth, because of the signs which were given to it to do before the beast, saying to the ones dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast who has the wound of the sword, and lived.
And the light of a lamp will not still shine in you, not ever! And the voice of the bridegroom and bride will not still be heard in you, not ever! For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were led astray.
and threw him into the abyss, and shut him up, and sealed over him, that he should not mislead the nations any more, until the thousand years are fulfilled. And after these things, he must be set loose a little time.