Behold, you have risen up in the room of your fathers, a combination of sinful men, to increase yet farther the fierce wrath of the Lord against Israel.

That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have transgressed, we have done unrighteously.

Our fathers in Egypt understood not Your wonders, and remembered not the multitude of Your mercy; but provoked [Him] as they went up by the Red Sea.

We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us. Because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

and you shall say, Thus says the Lord to Jerusalem: Your root and your birth are of the land of Canaan: your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

And be not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they did not hear, nor heed Me, says the Lord.

But do you receive My words and My ordinances, all that I command by My Spirit to My servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers? And they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has He done to us.

but you, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained from the iniquities of your fathers: you have perverted My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty. But you said, In what way shall we return?

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death passed to all men, because all sinned--

O My people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you; O My people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink; the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred; this is [their] vision.

See how they are all blinded; they have not known; [they are] dumb dogs [that] will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.

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the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands, and My people have loved it! And what will you do for the future?

For priest and prophet are defiled, and I have seen their iniquities in My house.

And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led My people Israel astray.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth [into] all the land.

MEM. For the sins of her prophets, and iniquities of her priests, who shed righteous blood in the midst of her,

NUN. Her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their clothing with it.

whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and your widows are multiplied in the midst of you.

Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.

My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you, that you shall not minister as priest unto Me: and [as] you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Their heads have judged for gifts, and their priests have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us.

And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant might be with the sons of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.

The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked before Me directing [his way] in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness.

But you have turned aside from the way, and caused many to fail in [following] the law: you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus, so as to put Him to death.

Likewise the chief priests also, mocking [Him] with the scribes and elders, and Pharisees, said,

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You don't know anything,

Now this he did not say on his own, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

Therefore from that day [on] they took counsel together, that they might kill Him.

Then 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,

and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the public custody.