The Harlot, To This Day, What? Even Now!
Jeremiah 3:19, 1 Samuel 15:28-29, Hosea 11:5, Isaiah 34:16, Isaiah 7:24, Ezekiel 34:21, Isaiah 49:8, Jeremiah 2:7, Jeremiah 2:8, Jeremiah 2:6-7, 2 Chronicles 11:15, 2 Chronicles 11:15, Deuteronomy 32:17, Psalm 106:37, Judges 2:12-14, Psalm 76:8, Hosea 13:1, 2 Kings 16:3-4, Judges 10:6, 1 Kings 11:33, Judges 10:6, Jeremiah 32:35,Jeremiah 19:5, 1 kings 11:7, 2 Kings 23:13,Judges 10:6, 2 Kings 17:31, Hosea 4:13-15, Hosea 4:13, Joshua 13:12, 1 Kings 22:38, Jeremiah 51:33, Jeremiah 50:2, 2 Kings 17:34, Hosea 4:13, 2 Kings 17:35-36, Jeremiah 2:7, Isaiah 49:8, Isaiah 49:6, Deuteronomy 18:14, Jeremiah 3:19, Jeremiah 3:20, Judges 10:6, Judges 2:11-12, Ezekiel 16:32, Ezekiel 16:31,Proverbs 30:20, Psalm 12:4, Ezekiel 16:45, Ezekiel 16:3 Ezekiel 23:44, Isaiah 14:9, Ezekiel 16:33, Hosea 9:1, Nehemiah 13:27, Leviticus 20:6, Exodus 21:4, Hosea 4:14, Hosea 4:13, Numbers 5:21, Numbers 5:22, Hosea 9:14, 1 Chronicles 5:25, Ezekiel 30:18, Hosea 5:7, 2 Kings 17:17, Isaiah 28:15, Habakkuk 1:6, John 4:16, 1 Chronicles 21:1, Isaiah 65:3-5, Matthew 23:28,Matthew 13:22 Jeremiah 12:6 Ezekiel 12:3, Revelation 2:13, Nahum 3:3, Ezekiel 12:3 Revelation 18:2, Jeremiah 5:7, Job 27:14, Jeremiah 5:7, Job 25:3, Haggai 2:22, Judges 10:7, Judges, 2:14, Jeremiah 12:7, Ezekiel 20:25-26, Psalm 68:23, Psalm 79:3, Daniel 2:35, Hosea 13:3, Mark 7:28,Ezekiel 20:31, Revelation 2:22 Jeremiah 15:9, Revelation 2:22 Zephaniah 2:2 Matthew 13:21 Ezekiel 20:27, Isaiah 5:20, Hosea 10:2,Isaiah 36:12, Ezekiel 12:2, Ezekiel 12:25, Hosea 4:14, Judges 15:2, 2 Corinthians 2:10-11,Revelation 2:23, Leviticus 17:10, Ezekiel 20:26, Matthew 13:21-22, Kings 17:32, Job 25:22, 2 Kings 17:33, 1 Corinthians 10:21, Ezekiel 44:6,Amos 5:25, Mark 8:17-18, Ezekiel 31:15, Psalm 77:18,Psalm 18:15, Psalm 18: 14, 2 Corinthians 12:11, 2 Corinthians 12:10, Exodus 17:7, Exodus 34:14, Exodus 20:5, Job 27:12,2 Corinthians 12:11, Job 27:12, Hosea 4:15, 1 Corinthians 4:10 Exodus 20:4-5, 2 Kings 17:40-41, 2 Kings 17:34, Judges 2:10-12, Psalm 88:12, Ezekiel 16:44, Isaiah 3:17-19,1 Samuel 7:3, Job 25:3, Psalm 7:12, Numbers 24:8, Amos 8:11, Isaiah 58:4, Ezekiel 5:15, Ezekiel 5:16-17, 1 Kings 14:15,Deuteronomy 32:23-24, Psalm 18:14, Ezekiel 29:6 Job 40:21, 2 Kings 18:21, 1 Kings 14:15, Matthew 8:34, Job 8:11, Psalm 68:30, Ezekiel 29:12, Jeremiah 44:10, Revelations 11:1, Psalm 7:14, Ezekiel 29:7, Matthew 27:29, Matthew 27:28, Revelation 19:13, Matthew 27:29-30, Isaiah 42:3, Micah 7:2, 2 Kings 17:35,38,39, Revelation 19:17, Amos 8:10, Revelation 6:2, Psalm 18:14,Psalm 144:5-6, Isaiah 42:3, Matthew 12:20, Psalm 76:4, Psalm 38:2, Psalm 144:7, 1 Kings 14:15-16, Jeremiah 44:11-12, Ezekiel 29:5, Job 41:1-3, Ezekiel 29:5, Zephaniah 1:17, 2 Kings 19:32-33, Job 8:11,Hosea 5:6, Proverbs 22:5,Amos 8:12, Isaiah 19:5, Job 6:4, Psalm 77:17,Luke 10:18, Psalm 77:17, Luke 10:18, Psalm 77:17 Deuteronomy 32:22, Psalm 18:13, 2 Samuel 22:14-15, Psalm 21:12, Psalm 21:11, Hosea 8:4, Hosea 13:2, Judges 2:13, Hosea 8:5-6, Hosea 10:5, Ezekiel 30:13, Ezekiel 30:13, Jeremiah 50:2, Psalm 11:2, Psalm 64:3, Psalm 11:2, Jeremiah 9:3, Revelation 6:4 Revelation 6:8, Revelation 16:14, Jeremiah 9:3, Psalm 7:13, Psalm 11:2, Jeremiah 5:16, Proverbs 26:18, Isaiah 5:28, 2 Kings 18:35, Proverbs 26: 19, Zechariah 9:10,2 kings 19:12-13, Amos 5:23-24, Exodus 34:9, Psalm 38:1, Job 33:8-9, Job 41:33-34, Isaiah 49:8, 1 Samuel 12:10, Psalm 16:4, Psalm 55:23, Matthew 12:25, . Luke 11:18, Deuteronomy 7:5, Psalm 76:2-3, Psalm 58:10, Leviticus 17:7, Zechariah 9:11-12, Hosea 14:8, 1 Timothy 5:15, 1 Timothy 4:1-3, Jeremiah 44:12, Hebrews 8:13, Revelation 21:15, Jeremiah 4:22,2 Kings 17:22-24, Romans 11:5, 2 Corinthians 2:10-11, Jeremiah 23:28, Genesis 38:21-22, Matthew 4:10,Hebrews 7:22 ,Mark 3:23-29
“But I said: ‘How can I put you among the children [And] give you a pleasant land, A beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations?’
“The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.” “He shall not return to the land of Egypt; But the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to repent.
“Search from the book of the Lord, and read:
With arrows and bows men will come there, because you have pushed with side and shoulder, butted all the weak ones with your horns, and scattered them abroad,
Thus says the Lord:
“In an acceptable time I have heard You, And in the day of salvation I have helped You; But when you entered, you defiled My Land and made My heritage an abomination. And walked after things that do not profit.And those who handle the law did not know Me;
The prophets prophesied by Baal,
the priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
The rulers also transgressed against Me;
Neither did they say, ‘Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness,Through a land of drought and the shadow of death,
Through a land of deserts and pits,Through a land that no one crossed And where no one dwelt?’
I brought you into a bountiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness. For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; Then he appointed for himself priests for the high places, for the demons, and the calf idols which he had made. They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear. They even sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons, and they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger. They forsook the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel.
You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;
When Ephraim spoke, trembling, He exalted himself in Israel; But when he offended through Baal worship, he died. indeed, he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel. And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. Then the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the
Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Syria, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, the gods of Sidon, And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.’
Then Solomon built a high place for
- Chemosh the abomination of Moab on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mount of Corruption, the gods of Moab,
- and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon
- and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon.
- and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak;
- and the Sepharvites burned their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech,
They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops, And burn incense on the hills, Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, (who remained of the remnant of the giants)Because their shade is good.
and the dogs licked up his blood while the harlots bathed
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor When it is time to thresh her;
Say, ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. To this day they continue practicing the former rituals; Therefore, your daughters commit harlotry, And your brides commit adultery. With whom the Lord had made a covenant and charged them, saying:
“You shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them;
But the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, Him you shall worship, and to Him you shall offer sacrifice. I brought you into a bountiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness. And in the day of salvation I have helped You; For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners;
“And I said:
‘You shall call Me, “My Father,” And not turn away from Me.’
Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, So have you dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,” says the Lord
They forsook the Lord and did not serve Him.
Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals; and they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.
You are an adulterous wife, who loathed their husbands and children; who takes strangers instead of her husband.
“You erected your shrine at the head of every road
This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, “I have done no wickedness. ”Who have said,
“With our tongue we will prevail;Our lips are our own;
Who is lord over us?”
You are your mother’s daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; Yet they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who plays the harlot;
“Hell from beneath is excited about you, To meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you,
your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. “Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan;
Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry to prostitute himself with them, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?”
(If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s,…. and he shall go out by himself And offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot.)
Therefore, your daughters commit harlotry, and your brides commit adultery. and he shall say to the woman—“the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh rot and your belly swell;
‘Then the woman shall say, “Amen, so be it.”
Give them, O Lord— What will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!
And they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. They have dealt treacherously with the Lord, for they have begotten pagan children. And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves
.…A bitter and hasty nation
(Her arrogant power will come to an end, clouds will cover her, and her towns will go into captivity.)
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
Now Satan stood up against Israel,
A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;Who sacrifice in gardens, And burn incense on altars of brick; Who sit among the graves, And spend the night in the tombs;
Who eat swine’s flesh,
And the broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, Do not come near me, For I am holier than you!’
“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor When it is time to thresh her;
Say, ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. To this day they continue practicing the former rituals; Therefore, your daughters commit harlotry, And your brides commit adultery. With whom the Lord had made a covenant and charged them, saying:
“You shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them;
But the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, Him you shall worship, and to Him you shall offer sacrifice. I brought you into a bountiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness. And in the day of salvation I have helped You; For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners;
“And I said:
‘You shall call Me, “My Father,” And not turn away from Me.’
Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, So have you dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,” says the Lord
They forsook the Lord and did not serve Him.
Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals; and they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.
You are an adulterous wife, who loathed their husbands and children; who takes strangers instead of her husband.
“You erected your shrine at the head of every road
This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, “I have done no wickedness. ”Who have said,
“With our tongue we will prevail;Our lips are our own;
Who is lord over us?”
You are your mother’s daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; Yet they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who plays the harlot;
“Hell from beneath is excited about you, To meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you,
your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. “Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan;
Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry to prostitute himself with them, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?”
(If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s,…. and he shall go out by himself And offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot.)
Therefore, your daughters commit harlotry, and your brides commit adultery. and he shall say to the woman—“the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh rot and your belly swell;
‘Then the woman shall say, “Amen, so be it.”
Give them, O Lord— What will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!
And they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. They have dealt treacherously with the Lord, for they have begotten pagan children. And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves
.…A bitter and hasty nation
(Her arrogant power will come to an end, clouds will cover her, and her towns will go into captivity.)
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
Now Satan stood up against Israel,
A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;Who sacrifice in gardens, And burn incense on altars of brick; Who sit among the graves, And spend the night in the tombs;
Who eat swine’s flesh,
And the broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, Do not come near me, For I am holier than you!’
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
And the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word. Do not believe them, Even though they speak smooth words to you. “I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is.
Therefore, son of man prepare your belongings for captivity.
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery.You shall go from your place into captivity to another place in their sight.
……Its victim never departs. And has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!
“How shall I pardon you for this?
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those that are not gods. Then they committed adultery And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ house(s).
Is there any number to His armies?
I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; I will destroy the strength of the Gentile kingdoms. I will overthrow the chariots And those who ride in them; The horses and their riders shall come down, Everyone by the sword of his brother.
So the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the people of Ammon. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.
“Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live; And I pronounced them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire, That your foot may crush them in blood, And the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”
Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, And there was no one to bury them, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. Like chaff blown off from a threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney.
And she answered and said to Him,“Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.”
For when you offer your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day
Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, “She languishes who has borne seven; She has breathed her last; Her sun has gone down While it was yet day; She has been ashamed and confounded. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword Before their enemies,” says the Lord. Unless they repent of their deeds. Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you, Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you! For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word,
“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God:
“In this too your fathers have blasphemed Me, by being unfaithful to Me. Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
...Now they are held guilty.
And the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word. Do not believe them, Even though they speak smooth words to you. “I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is.
Therefore, son of man prepare your belongings for captivity.
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery.You shall go from your place into captivity to another place in their sight.
……Its victim never departs. And has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!
“How shall I pardon you for this?
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those that are not gods. Then they committed adultery And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ house(s).
Is there any number to His armies?
I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; I will destroy the strength of the Gentile kingdoms. I will overthrow the chariots And those who ride in them; The horses and their riders shall come down, Everyone by the sword of his brother.
So the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the people of Ammon. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.
“Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live; And I pronounced them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire, That your foot may crush them in blood, And the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”
Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, And there was no one to bury them, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. Like chaff blown off from a threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney.
And she answered and said to Him,“Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.”
For when you offer your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day
Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, “She languishes who has borne seven; She has breathed her last; Her sun has gone down While it was yet day; She has been ashamed and confounded. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword Before their enemies,” says the Lord. Unless they repent of their deeds. Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you, Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you! For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word,
“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God:
“In this too your fathers have blasphemed Me, by being unfaithful to Me. Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
...Now they are held guilty.
“Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?”
“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which has eyes to see but does not see, and ears to hear but does not hear; for they are a rebellious house. For I am the Lord. I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and perform it,” says the Lord God.’”
Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works. ‘And whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people, that I might make them desolate and that they might know that I am the Lord.”’
immediately he stumbles and he becomes unfruitful.
..So they feared the Lord, and from every class they appointed for themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.
“Dominion and fear belong to Him; He makes peace in His high places.
They feared the Lord, yet served their own gods—according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away.
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.
“Now say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “O house of Israel, let Us have no more of all your abominations.
“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which has eyes to see but does not see, and ears to hear but does not hear; for they are a rebellious house. For I am the Lord. I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and perform it,” says the Lord God.’”
Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works. ‘And whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people, that I might make them desolate and that they might know that I am the Lord.”’
immediately he stumbles and he becomes unfruitful.
..So they feared the Lord, and from every class they appointed for themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.
“Dominion and fear belong to Him; He makes peace in His high places.
They feared the Lord, yet served their own gods—according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away.
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.
“Now say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “O house of Israel, let Us have no more of all your abominations.
The LORD speaks to Bel in Israel
“Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Do you not yet perceive nor understand?
Is your heart still hardened?
Having eyes, do you not see?
And having ears, do you not hear?
….. And do you not remember?
“Thus says the Lord God: ‘In the day when it went down to hell, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it. I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were held back. Then the channels of the sea were seen,
(The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.The foundations of the world were uncovered At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils and He vanquished them.)
For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though I am nothing. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, … for Christ’s sake.
I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me.
and because they tempted the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Surely all of you have seen it; Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?“
Though you, Israel, play the harlot, Let not Judah offend.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!
However, they did not obey, but they followed their former rituals. So these nations feared the Lord, yet served their carved images; also their children and their children’s children have continued doing as their fathers did, even to this day. To this day they continue practicing the former rituals; they do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the law and commandment which the Lord had commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel,
When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel.
Shall Your wonders be known in the dark?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
“Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you:
‘Like mother, like daughter!’
In that day the Lord will take away the finery:
The jingling anklets, the scarves, and the crescents;
The pendants, the bracelets, and the veils;
Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
Upon whom does His light not rise?
If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready. He shall consume the nations, his enemies; He shall break their bones And pierce them with his arrows.
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord. Indeed you fast for strife and debate, ‘So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken. When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread. So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”
Do you not yet perceive nor understand?
Is your heart still hardened?
Having eyes, do you not see?
And having ears, do you not hear?
….. And do you not remember?
“Thus says the Lord God: ‘In the day when it went down to hell, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it. I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were held back. Then the channels of the sea were seen,
(The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.The foundations of the world were uncovered At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils and He vanquished them.)
For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though I am nothing. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, … for Christ’s sake.
I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me.
and because they tempted the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Surely all of you have seen it; Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?“
Though you, Israel, play the harlot, Let not Judah offend.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!
However, they did not obey, but they followed their former rituals. So these nations feared the Lord, yet served their carved images; also their children and their children’s children have continued doing as their fathers did, even to this day. To this day they continue practicing the former rituals; they do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the law and commandment which the Lord had commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel,
When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel.
Shall Your wonders be known in the dark?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
“Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you:
‘Like mother, like daughter!’
In that day the Lord will take away the finery:
The jingling anklets, the scarves, and the crescents;
The pendants, the bracelets, and the veils;
Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
Upon whom does His light not rise?
If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready. He shall consume the nations, his enemies; He shall break their bones And pierce them with his arrows.
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord. Indeed you fast for strife and debate, ‘So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken. When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread. So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”
‘I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.
They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, Lightnings in abundance,
“Then all the inhabitants of Egypt Shall know that I am the Lord, Because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. In a covert of reeds and marsh. He lies under the lotus trees.
Now look!
They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, Lightnings in abundance,
“Then all the inhabitants of Egypt Shall know that I am the Lord, Because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. In a covert of reeds and marsh. He lies under the lotus trees.
Now look!
You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it.
For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger.
And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to depart from their region.
Can the reeds flourish without water?
While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers before any other plant.
Rebuke the beasts of the reeds. I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; They have not been humbled, to this day, nor have they feared; they have not walked in My law or in My statutes that I set before you and your fathers.’
Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod.
Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity;
…When they took hold of you with the hand,
…When they leaned on you,
...When they had twisted a crown of thorns,
They put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand.
And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” Then they spat on Him, and took the reed and struck Him on the head.
A bruised reed He will not break,……And smoking flax He will not quench;
The faithful man has perished from the earth, And there is no one upright among men.
with whom the Lord had made a covenant and charged them, saying:
He bends His bow and makes it ready.
For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger.
And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to depart from their region.
Can the reeds flourish without water?
While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers before any other plant.
Rebuke the beasts of the reeds. I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; They have not been humbled, to this day, nor have they feared; they have not walked in My law or in My statutes that I set before you and your fathers.’
Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod.
Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity;
…When they took hold of you with the hand,
…When they leaned on you,
...When they had twisted a crown of thorns,
They put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand.
And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” Then they spat on Him, and took the reed and struck Him on the head.
A bruised reed He will not break,……And smoking flax He will not quench;
The faithful man has perished from the earth, And there is no one upright among men.
with whom the Lord had made a covenant and charged them, saying:
- “You shall not fear other gods,
- nor bow down to them
- nor serve them
- nor sacrifice to them;
- you shall not forget,
- nor shall you fear other gods.
- you shall not fear other gods. But the Lord your God you shall fear; and He will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.”
- And the statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandment which He wrote for you, you shall be careful to observe forever;
He bends His bow and makes it ready.
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather together for the supper of the great God, I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.
And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe,
Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.
He will bring forth justice….. for truth. Till He sends forth justice… to victory;
You are more glorious and excellent Than the mountains of prey. For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down. Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners,
The rivers will turn foul; The brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up; The reeds and rushes will wither. The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of the River, And everything sown by the River, Will wither, be driven away, and be no more because they have made their wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger.
And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin.”
“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will set My face against you for catastrophe and for cutting off all Judah. And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there, and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt.
I will leave you in the wilderness,
They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine. They shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by famine; and they shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach!
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook,Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?
Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Will he make many supplications to you?
Will he speak softly to you?
You and all the fish of your rivers; You shall fall on the open field; You shall not be picked up or gathered. I have given you as food To the beasts of the field And to the birds of the heavens.
“I will bring distress upon men, And they shall walk like blind men, Because they have sinned against the Lord; Their blood shall be poured out like dust, And their flesh like refuse.”
‘He shall not come into this city, Nor shoot an arrow there, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it. By the way that he came, By the same shall he return; And he shall not come into this city,’ Says the Lord.
“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
They shall go to seek the Lord, But they will not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,But shall not find it. They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east;The waters will fail from the sea, And the river will be wasted and dried up. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me;
My spirit drinks in their poison; The terrors of God are arrayed against me. With the poison of serpents of the dust. Your arrows also flashed about, And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound;
For a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains, The Lord thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice, He sent out arrows and scattered them;
Hailstones and coals of fire.
Therefore You will make them turn their back;You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces. For they intended evil against You; They devised a plot which they are not able to perform. “They set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them. Now they sin more and more, And have made for themselves molded images, Idols of their silver, according to their skill;
All of it is the work of craftsmen.
They say of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”
They forsook the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
They made idols for themselves—That they might be cut off.
For look!
The wicked bend their bow, Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, Their quiver is like an open tomb;They make ready their arrow on the string, He makes His arrows into fiery shafts. And bend their bows to shoot their arrows—bitter words,
“And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies.
Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword. So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me,” says the Lord.
He also prepares for Himself instruments of death
That they may shoot in secret at the blameless; That they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart. Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent;
Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand
And says, “I was only joking!”
And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe,
Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.
He will bring forth justice….. for truth. Till He sends forth justice… to victory;
You are more glorious and excellent Than the mountains of prey. For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down. Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners,
The rivers will turn foul; The brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up; The reeds and rushes will wither. The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of the River, And everything sown by the River, Will wither, be driven away, and be no more because they have made their wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger.
And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin.”
“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will set My face against you for catastrophe and for cutting off all Judah. And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there, and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt.
I will leave you in the wilderness,
They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine. They shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by famine; and they shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach!
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook,Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?
Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Will he make many supplications to you?
Will he speak softly to you?
You and all the fish of your rivers; You shall fall on the open field; You shall not be picked up or gathered. I have given you as food To the beasts of the field And to the birds of the heavens.
“I will bring distress upon men, And they shall walk like blind men, Because they have sinned against the Lord; Their blood shall be poured out like dust, And their flesh like refuse.”
‘He shall not come into this city, Nor shoot an arrow there, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it. By the way that he came, By the same shall he return; And he shall not come into this city,’ Says the Lord.
“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
They shall go to seek the Lord, But they will not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,But shall not find it. They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east;The waters will fail from the sea, And the river will be wasted and dried up. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me;
My spirit drinks in their poison; The terrors of God are arrayed against me. With the poison of serpents of the dust. Your arrows also flashed about, And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound;
For a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains, The Lord thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice, He sent out arrows and scattered them;
Hailstones and coals of fire.
Therefore You will make them turn their back;You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces. For they intended evil against You; They devised a plot which they are not able to perform. “They set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them. Now they sin more and more, And have made for themselves molded images, Idols of their silver, according to their skill;
All of it is the work of craftsmen.
They say of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”
They forsook the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
They made idols for themselves—That they might be cut off.
- Your calf is rejected, O Samaria! My anger is aroused against them — How long until they attain to innocence?
- For from Israel is even this: A workman made it, and it is not God;
- But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
- The inhabitants of Samaria fear Because of the calf of Beth Aven. For its people mourn for it, And its priests shriek for it— Because its glory has departed from it.
- “I will also destroy the idols, And cause the images to cease from Noph;
- There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt; I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
- Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.’
For look!
The wicked bend their bow, Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, Their quiver is like an open tomb;They make ready their arrow on the string, He makes His arrows into fiery shafts. And bend their bows to shoot their arrows—bitter words,
“And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies.
Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword. So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me,” says the Lord.
He also prepares for Himself instruments of death
That they may shoot in secret at the blameless; That they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart. Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent;
Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand
And says, “I was only joking!”
The battle bow shall be cut off.
Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed,
Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance”
O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!
Surely no fear of me will terrify you, nor will my hand be heavy on you.“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the sound of your words, saying,
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.
On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear. He beholds every high thing; He is king over all the Children of Pride.” To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;
xIndeed He says, ‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
Then they cried out to the Lord, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and served the Baals and Ashtoreths; but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You.’ xBut he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation”—because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.” Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god; Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, Nor take up their names on my lips. But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in You.
But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them:
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?
But thus you shall deal with them:
In Salem also is His tabernacle. There He broke the arrows of the bow, The shield and sword of battle. Selah
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.”
“As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. Return to the stronghold,You Prisoners of Hope.
Even today I declare
That I will restore double to you.
I have heard and observed him. For some have already turned aside after Satan. Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy,
having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
forbidding to marry,
and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine. They shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by famine; and they shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach!
Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
(And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall)
But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)
Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
...“I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; For the men themselves go apart with harlots,
... Her father said, “I really thought that you thoroughly hated her;
“For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge.”
For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them, until the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.
Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the Election of Grace.
Selah!
“The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
...Then he asked the men of that place, saying, “Where is the harlot who was openly by the roadside?” And they said, “There was no harlot in this place.” So he returned to Judah and said, “I cannot find her. Also, the men of the place said there was no harlot in this place.”
Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed,
- Gozan and Haran and Rezeph,
- and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
- Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?’”
Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance”
O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!
Surely no fear of me will terrify you, nor will my hand be heavy on you.“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the sound of your words, saying,
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.
On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear. He beholds every high thing; He is king over all the Children of Pride.” To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;
xIndeed He says, ‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
Then they cried out to the Lord, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and served the Baals and Ashtoreths; but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You.’ xBut he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation”—because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.” Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god; Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, Nor take up their names on my lips. But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in You.
But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them:
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?
But thus you shall deal with them:
- you shall destroy their altars, and
- break down their sacred pillars, and
- cut down their wooden images, and
- burn their carved images with fire.
In Salem also is His tabernacle. There He broke the arrows of the bow, The shield and sword of battle. Selah
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.”
“As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. Return to the stronghold,You Prisoners of Hope.
Even today I declare
That I will restore double to you.
I have heard and observed him. For some have already turned aside after Satan. Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy,
having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
forbidding to marry,
and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine. They shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by famine; and they shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach!
Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
(And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall)
But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)
Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
...“I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; For the men themselves go apart with harlots,
... Her father said, “I really thought that you thoroughly hated her;
“For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge.”
For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them, until the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.
Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the Election of Grace.
Selah!
“The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
...Then he asked the men of that place, saying, “Where is the harlot who was openly by the roadside?” And they said, “There was no harlot in this place.” So he returned to Judah and said, “I cannot find her. Also, the men of the place said there was no harlot in this place.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.’”
Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.
...by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.
Amen and amen.
So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables:
“How can Satan cast out Satan?
Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.
...by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.
Amen and amen.
So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables:
“How can Satan cast out Satan?
- If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
- And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
- And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end.
- No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.
Reference and external links
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- Brady, Tara. "'I Have Always Been Very Different': Mexican Lawyer Undergoes Extreme Body Modification to Become Vampire Lady (complete with Titanium Horns Inserted into Her Head)." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 05 Nov. 2013. Web. 01 Sept. 2016. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2481092/I-different-Mexican-lawyer-undergoes-extreme-body-modification-Vampire-Lady-complete-titanium-horns-inserted-head.html>.
- Kim, Susanna. "Why Detroit Has the Largest Satanist Temple Chapter in the US." ABCNEWS. N.p., 27 July 2015. Web. 23 Aug. 2016. <http://abcnews.go.com/US/detroit-largest-satanist-temple-chapter-us/story?id=32714083>.
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