Get out of the way! Turn away from the path! Let’s hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
Whom did you taunt and blaspheme? Against whom did you raise your voice and haughtily lift up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know Your ways.
So Adonai says, “Since these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, yet their hearts are far from Me, and their fear of Me is a mitzvah taught by men.
Those who make a man out to be guilty with a word, and trap him who reproves at the gate, and deny justice with meaninglessness.
But at Bethel you are not to prophesy any more—for it is a royal sanctuary and a house of the kingdom.”
If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood speaks lies—“I will prophesy for you of wine and strong drink”—then he would be a spokesman of this people.
But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
And just as they did not see fit to recognize God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what is not fitting.
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents.
For the mindset of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it does not submit itself to the law of God—for it cannot.
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance in them due to the hardness of their heart.