Isaiah 28:13

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,

It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.

You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I lay my vengeance on them.” ’ ”

therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’

Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;

He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

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

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord Yahweh’s hand fell on me there.

Then some of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

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.

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.

Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!