Psalms 107:17

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

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

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them.

We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.

Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;

“All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren’t they Jerusalem?

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

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

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

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.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.

The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”

because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

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.

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

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

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.

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.