⁶Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

⁵The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

¹³So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

²¹The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

¹¹Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

⁸The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

¹⁷For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

¹⁹Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

⁷But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

¹³They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

²⁰For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

¹³Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

⁵Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

¹Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

⁸In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

⁴For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

⁴The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

⁵A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

³The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

⁴They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

⁴None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

⁸He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

⁸He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

⁶They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

⁴Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

¹⁶Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.