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.
O generation, see the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more unto you?
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have forgotten me, and thrust me behind your back, therefore you must also bear your lewdness and your whoredoms.
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: in order that the living may know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowliest of men.
The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?
And if a soul sins, and hears the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of it; if he does not tell it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you have become fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness for us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a witness to you, so that you do not deny your God.