Shall the ax glorify itself without him that chops with it? Or shall the saw lift itself up without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? But it shall not be so;

Whom have you reproached and provoked? And against whom have you lifted up your voice? And have you not lifted up your eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?

And your wrath in which you have been enraged, and your rage has come up before Me; therefore I will put a hook in your nose, and a bit in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came.

Do you then yet exert yourself to hinder My people, so as not to let them go?

and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, inasmuch as He hears your murmuring against God; and who are we, that you continue to murmur against us?

And Moses said, [This shall be] when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning to the full, because the Lord has heard your murmuring, which you murmur against us: and what are we? For your murmuring is not against us, but against God.

Thus [it is with] you and all your congregation which is gathered together against God: and who is Aaron, that you murmur against him?

He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me."

And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"

And when their heart was merry, then they said, Call Sampson out of the prison house, and let him play before us. And they called Sampson out of the prison house, and he played before them; and they struck him with the palms of their hands, and set him between the pillars.

And the house [was] full of men and women, and there [were] all the chiefs of the Philistines, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women looking at the sports of Sampson.

Those that sit in the gate talked against me, and those that drank wine sang against me.

When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And kneeling before Him, they mocked Him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

And those passing by were blaspheming Him, shaking their heads

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

He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He'll [have] Him; for He said, 'I am the Son of God.'"

receiving the wages of unrighteousness, counting as a pleasure to revel in the daytime, [they are] spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you,

And they opened wide their mouth upon me; they said Aha, aha, our eyes have seen [it].

And all the people returned safe to Joshua to Makkedah; and none of the children of Israel murmured with his tongue.

[ 16:10] In His anger He has cast me down; He has gnashed His teeth upon me: the weapons of His robbers have fallen upon me.

[ 16:11] He has attacked me with the keen glances of His eyes; with His sharp [spear] He has struck me [down] upon my knees, and they have run upon me with one accord.

All that saw Me mocked Me; they spoke with [their] lips, they shook the head, [saying],

They have opened their mouth against Me, as a ravening and roaring lion.

They counted all My bones; and they observed and looked upon Me.

SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?

AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up; surely this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

Alas, sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children; you have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Woe to the apostate children, says the Lord; you have framed counsel, not by Me, and covenants not by My Spirit, to add sins to sins;

For the people are disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God;

And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord.

From the time the hills [existed] Israel has sinned. There they stood. War [waged] against the children of iniquity,

And the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the evil [one].

in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience,

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Because of which things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience,