For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and He will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.

You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened your ears; for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even from the womb.

Through dread of whom have you feared, and lied against Me, and have not remembered, nor considered Me, nor regarded Me; yea, though when I see you I pass them by, yet you have not feared Me.

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

And for all these things faithless Judah turned not to Me with all her heart, but falsely.

that you have wrought wickedness in your hearts, when you sent for me, saying, Pray for us to the Lord; and according to all that the Lord shall speak to you we will do.

Yet you have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel: will not My way be straight? Is your way straight?

But they are as a man transgressing a covenant.

Woe to them! For they have started aside from Me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against Me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against Me.

Ephraim has compassed Me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Judah with ungodliness; [but] now God knows them, and they shall be called God's holy people.

But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart [for] you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and [for] you to keep back for yourself from the price of the land?

While it remained unsold, did it not remain yours? And after it was sold, was it not in your control? Why have you purposed this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."

Turn, you children of Israel, who devise a deep and sinful counsel.

For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.

Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you. Know then, and see, that your forsaking Me [has been] bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.

Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort- how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!

But as a wife acts treacherously against her husband, so has the house of Israel dealt treacherously against Me, says the Lord.

O Lord, the hope of Israel, let all that have left You be ashamed, let them that have revolted be written on the earth, because they have forsaken the fountain of life, the Lord.

And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put My fear into their heart, that they may not depart from Me.

then those of you that escape among the nations where they were carried captive shall remember Me; (I have sworn [an oath] against their heart that goes a-whoring from Me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.

The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.

Take heed, brothers, lest there be in anyone of you a wicked heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

But this people have a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back.

Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? For they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.

Beware, each of his neighbor, and trust not in your brother, for everyone will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

But I say to you, that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.

Just as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one,

All [have] turned aside; together they became unprofitable; there is not [one] doing kindness, there is not so much as one."

"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Ruin and misery are in their ways;

There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Then lust, when it conceives, gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.