(A)They have neither knowledge nor understanding,
    (B)they walk about in darkness;
    (C)all the foundations of the earth are (D)shaken.

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if (A)the foundations are destroyed,
    what can the righteous do?”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 11:3 Or for the foundations will be destroyed; what has the righteous done?

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, (A)God gave them up to (B)a debased mind to do (C)what ought not to be done.

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Rulers and Prophets Denounced

And I said:
(A)Hear, you heads of Jacob
    and rulers of the house of Israel!
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?—

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13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
    to (A)walk in the ways of darkness,

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11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and (A)walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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35 So Jesus said to them, (A)“The light is among you (B)for a little while longer. (C)Walk while you have the light, lest darkness (D)overtake you. (E)The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

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29 Because they (A)hated knowledge
    and (B)did not choose the fear of the Lord,

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Have they no (A)knowledge, all the evildoers
    who (B)eat up my people as they eat bread
    and (C)do not call upon the Lord?

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19 But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: (A)“The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone (B)who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

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19 (A)And this is the judgment: (B)the light has come into the world, and (C)people loved the darkness rather than the light because (D)their works were evil.

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Therefore justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not overtake us;
(A)we hope for light, and behold, darkness,
    and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

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(A)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
    is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
    are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
    but behold, bloodshed;[a]
for righteousness,
    but behold, an outcry![b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
  2. Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike

From Dust to Dust

16 Moreover, (A)I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even (B)there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

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14 (A)The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the (B)same event happens to all of them.

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19 (A)The way of the wicked is like deep (B)darkness;
    they do not know over what they (C)stumble.

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When the earth (A)totters, and all its inhabitants,
    it is I who keep steady its (B)pillars. Selah

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Have those who work evil no knowledge,
    who eat up my people as they eat bread,
    and do not call upon God?

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