"And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all."
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Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.
Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.
And they have plunged themselves in the corruption of apostasy, but I will be a chastiser of them all.
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.
And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I `am' a fetter to them all.