"That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols."
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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.
that I may take the house of Israel by their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
in order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols -- all of them.