Leviticus 13:44

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

“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.”

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.

Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.

Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

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

Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

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.’

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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.

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.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

“When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

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

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

“Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.’

She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’

“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

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.”

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

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.

People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.