You have done these things, and I have kept silence; you thought that being I would be like you; but I will rebuke you and set in order before your eyes.
The wicked one finds favor; he does not learn righteousness; he acts wrongfully in the land of straight things, and he does not see the majesty of Jehovah.
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?
How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after Baals? See your way in the valley; know what you have done! You are a swift camel criss-crossing her ways;
God is not a man that He should lie, or a son of man that He should repent. Has He said, and shall He not do it? And has He spoken, and shall He not make it good?
So then do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both shed light on the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the purposes of the hearts. And then praise will be to each one from God.
The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing any to perish, but all to turn one’s self to repentance.