Isaiah 2:9

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy!

Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!

Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

The men of Beth Shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?”

David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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

both low and high, rich and poor together.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in princes.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.” ’ ”

Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it is burned. Is it profitable for any work?

“Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments,

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.

Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”

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

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.