“If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit;
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!
Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord God.
Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
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