Is it not laidup in storewith Me, Sealedup in My treasuries?
"My transgressionis sealedup in a bag,And You wrapup my iniquity.
"Althoughyou washyourself with lyeAnd usemuchsoap,The stainof your iniquityis beforeMe," declaresthe LordGOD.
"I signedand sealedthe deed,and calledin witnesses,and weighedout the silveron the scales.
"As for the smokingsacrificesthat you burnedin the citiesof Judahand in the streetsof Jerusalem,you and your forefathers,your kingsand your princes,and the peopleof the land,did not the LORDrememberthem and did not [all this] comeinto His mind?
The iniquityof Ephraimis boundup; His sinis storedup.
But becauseof your stubbornnessand unrepentantheartyou are storingup wrathfor yourselfin the dayof wrathand revelationof the righteous judgmentof God,
Thereforedo not go on passing judgmentbeforethe time,[but wait] untilthe Lordcomeswhowill bothbring to lightthe things hiddenin the darknessand disclosethe motivesof [men's] hearts;and theneach man'spraisewill cometo him from God.
and the LORDuprootedthem from their landin angerand in furyand in greatwrath,and castthem into anotherland,as [it is] thisday.'
"Their wineis the venomof serpents,And the deadlypoisonof cobras.
