Exodus 12:30

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more.

For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.

That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

“The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

They went up over the width of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

Come, see Yahweh’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

“Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Wail, you shepherds, and cry. Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come, and you will fall like fine pottery.

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.