"Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:"
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And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes!
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope:
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, And wickedness as with cart rope;
Wo `to' those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as `with' thick ropes of the cart -- sin.