Ah, sinful nation,
    a people laden with iniquity,
(A)offspring of evildoers,
    children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
    they have (B)despised (C)the Holy One of Israel,
    they are utterly (D)estranged.

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24 Therefore, (A)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so (B)their root will be (C)as rottenness,
    and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have (D)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
    and have (E)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when (B)he led you in the way?

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13 for my people have committed two evils:
(A)they have forsaken (B)me,
    the fountain of (C)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
    broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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For the mind that is set on the flesh is (A)hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; (B)indeed, it cannot.

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51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. (C)As your fathers did, so do you. 52 (D)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of (E)the Righteous One, (F)whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

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But when he saw many of (A)the Pharisees and (B)Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, (C)“You brood of (D)vipers! Who warned you to flee from (E)the wrath to come?

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19 (A)Is it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, (B)to their own shame?

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19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
    and (B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
    for (D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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19 who say: (A)“Let him be quick,
    let him speed his work
    that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,
    and let it come, that we may know it!”

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Paul's Ministry to the Church

24 Now (A)I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh (B)I am filling up (C)what is lacking in Christ's afflictions (D)for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

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22 (A)Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? (B)Are we stronger than he?

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33 You serpents, (A)you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to (B)hell?

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28 (A)Come to (B)me, all who labor and are (C)heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, (A)but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.

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(A)For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken
    by their God, the Lord of hosts,
but the land of the Chaldeans[a] is full of guilt
    against the Holy One of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:5 Hebrew their land

29 (A)“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. (B)Encamp around her; let no one escape. (C)Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has (D)proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

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11 then you shall say to them: (A)‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and (B)have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law, 12 and because (C)you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, (D)every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.

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26 (A)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, (B)but stiffened their neck. (C)They did worse than their fathers.

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33 “How well you direct your course
    to seek love!
So that even to wicked women
    you have taught your ways.

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31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
    or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
    we will come no more to you’?

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“What wrong did your fathers find in me
    that they went far from me,
(B)and went after (C)worthlessness, and became worthless?

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a people who provoke me
    to my face continually,
(A)sacrificing in gardens
    and making offerings on bricks;

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But you, draw near,
    sons of the sorceress,
    (A)offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.
Whom are you mocking?
    Against whom (B)do you open your mouth wide
    and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of (C)transgression,
    (D)the offspring of deceit,

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20 that they may see and know,
    may consider and understand together,
that (A)the hand of the Lord has done this,
    the Holy One of Israel has created it.

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