⁷² He denied it again, with an oath: “I don’t know the man!”

³ Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan^(A) has so filled your heart^(B) that you have lied to the Holy Spirit^(C) and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?^{(D) 4} Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal?^(E) What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”^(F)

³⁴ Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.”

⁷⁴ Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, “I don’t know the man!”

Immediately a rooster crowed.

³⁴ But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all:^(A) either by heaven, for it is God’s throne;^{(B) 35} or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.^{(C) 36} And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black.

⁵ “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers,^(A) adulterers^(B) and perjurers,^(C) against those who defraud laborers of their wages,^(D) who oppress the widows^(E) and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners^(F) among you of justice, but do not fear^(G) me,” says the Lord Almighty.

¹⁷ do not plot evil^(A) against each other, and do not love to swear falsely.^(B) I hate all this,” declares the Lord.

³ And he said to me, “This is the curse^(A) that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief^(B) will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely^(C) will be banished. ⁴ The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely^(D) by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.^(E)’”

Stubborn Israel