in order to seize the heart of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me through all their idols.
Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are estranged and backward.
I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give to every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Thus says the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and have walked after vanity and have become vain?
Their heart is divided; now they must bear their guilt. He will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.
I destroyed the three shepherds in the span of one month. For my soul was impatient with them, and their souls detested me.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not proper.
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, proud, boastful, inventors of evil things, and disobedient toward parents,
for the carnal mind is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be,
Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.
having their understanding darkened, excluded from the life of God through the ignorance that is within them, due to the hardness of their hearts.
And you, who were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled
Be attentive, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, and you depart from the living God.