While he was yet speaking with them, behold, a messenger came to him. And he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?

And Cain said to the Lord God, My crime is too great for me to be forgiven.

When He slew them, they sought Him; and they returned and sought diligently after God.

Yet they loved Him [only] with their mouth, and lied to Him with their tongue.

The folly of a man spoils his ways, and he blames God in his heart.

And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, [that] when you shall be hungry, you shall be grieved, and you shall speak evil of the prince and of your fathers' ordinances; and they shall look up to heaven above,

Your sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.