O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.
Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
But Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.
But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.
You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?
So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
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?
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