When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,

The odor of the sacrifice pleased the LORD, and he said to himself, "Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time.

You know everything I do; from far away you understand all my thoughts.

From the beginning I predicted the outcome; long ago I foretold what would happen. I said that my plans would never fail, that I would do everything I intended to do.

This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Gog: "When that time comes, you will start thinking up an evil plan.

You will decide to invade a helpless country where the people live in peace and security in unwalled towns that have no defenses.

I know what Israel is like---she cannot hide from me. She has been unfaithful, and her people are unfit to worship me."

I took care of you in a dry, desert land.

But when you entered the good land, you became full and satisfied, and then you grew proud and forgot me.

"People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert.

But now, because you have worshiped images of Sakkuth, your king god, and of Kaiwan, your star god, you will have to carry those images

But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew them all.

There was no need for anyone to tell him about them, because he himself knew what was in their hearts.

In accordance with his own plan God had already decided that Jesus would be handed over to you; and you killed him by letting sinful men crucify him.

They gathered to do everything that you by your power and will had already decided would happen.