Their mouths pour out insult; sharp words are on their lips. They say: “Who is there to hear?”
The one enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord derides them,
I, in my turn, will laugh at your doom; will mock when terror overtakes you;
But my Lord laughs at them, because he sees that their day is coming.
for no fault they hurry to take up arms. Come near and see my plight!
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.
Who say in their hearts, “God has forgotten, shows no concern, never bothers to look.”
I must lie down in the midst of lions hungry for human prey. Their teeth are spears and arrows; their tongue, a sharpened sword.