men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!
The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.
that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.
The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever. For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord; who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions, leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.” Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,
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