Isaiah 30:11

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

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

Behold, they ask me, “Where is Yahweh’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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.

Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

“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.”

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’

“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

“ ‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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!

The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

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.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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

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

Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and exceedingly many horsemen? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

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.

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

For our shield belongs to Yahweh, our king to the Holy One of Israel.

I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”

But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things: