O you sons of men, how long [will you be] slow to hear? Why do you love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.

How long will you judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.

And Moses and Aaron went in before Pharaoh, and they said to him, Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long do you refuse to reverence Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

And the Lord said to Moses, How long are you unwilling to heed My commands and My law?

So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and have become subject to reproofs.

How long will you lie, O sluggard? And when will you awake out of sleep?

Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved; how long will your grievous thoughts be within you?

Then Jesus answered and said, "O unfaithful and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me."

For they intended evil against You; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform.

While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul; and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.

Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war.

They were instructed by Me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against Me.

Surely You have appointed [judgments] to them because of their crafty dealings; You have cast them down when they were lifted up.

As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in Your city You will despise their image.

And David said, As the Lord lives, the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come and he die, or he shall go down to battle and be added [to his fathers].

therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very close at hand.

And its fall shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, [as] small fragments of a pitcher, so that you should not find among them a sherd, with which you might take up fire, and with which you should draw a little water.