“Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors,
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!
You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?” Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you; you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them.
Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.
If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!
for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
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