Psalms 58:3

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

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

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

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

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

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.

You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock—

and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

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

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

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

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

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

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.

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.” ’

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

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.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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.

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.