The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Psalm 10:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The wicked one in the pride of his countenance will not seek, inquire for, and yearn for God; all his thoughts are that there is no God [so He never punishes]. American Standard Version (1901) The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God. Common English Bible At the peak of their wrath, the wicked don’t seek God: There’s no God— that’s what they are always thinking. Catholic Public Domain Version For they have destroyed the things that you have completed. But what has the just one done? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done? |
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
When you said, *Seek my face,* my heart said to you, *I will seek your face, LORD.*
Par`oh said, *Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Yisra'el go? I don't know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Yisra'el go.*
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is the LORD?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sedom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Generation, see the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Yisra'el? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?
Yerushalayim, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
It will happen at that time, that I will search Yerushalayim with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, *The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.*
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD's anger.
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
that you were at that time separate from Messiah, alienated from the commonwealth of Yisra'el, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;