Hear these [words], you house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord God of Israel, making mention [of it, but] not with truth, nor with righteousness;

For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is vain; their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have used deceit.

For the end, A Psalm of David, upon the eighth. Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.

Everyone has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

Run about in the streets of Jerusalem and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you can find [one], if there is anyone that executes judgment, and seeks faithfulness, and I will pardon them, says the Lord.

The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?

This is the nation that has not heeded the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.

Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel: for the Lord [has] a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery bound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

For the godly has perished from the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict everyone his neighbor.

His eye is too pure to behold evil doings, and to look upon grievous afflictions: why do You look upon despisers? Will You be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?

And will You make men as the fish in the sea, and as the reptiles which have no guide?

Then Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Now when many days were fulfilled, the Jews plotted to kill him.

Just as it is written: "For Your sake we are put to death the whole day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter."

Still others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and of prison.

of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,

not as Cain who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his works were evil and the [works] of his brother were righteous.

And Jehu went forth to the servants of his master, and they said to him, [Is] all well? Why has this madman come to you? And he said to them, You know the man, and his babble.

The Lord has made you priest in the place of Jehoida the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and you shall put them in prison, and into the dungeon.

The days of vengeance have come, the days of your recompense have come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged. By reason of the multitude of your iniquities your madness has abounded.

But when His relatives heard, they came out to seize Him, for they were saying, "He has lost His mind."

Then the Jews said to Him, "Now we know that You have a demon! Abraham and the prophets died, and You say, 'If anyone keeps My word he shall by no means taste death.'

And many of them said, "He has a demon and is raving mad. Why do you listen to Him?"

Now as he spoke these things, Festus said with a loud voice, "You are mad, Paul! Your higher learning is driving you to madness!"

For if we were beside ourselves, it [was] for God; or if we are of sound mind, [it is] for you.

And his doing this appeared evil before God; and He killed him also.

And the time of mourning expired, and David sent and took her into his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son: but the thing which David did was evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Nevertheless the Lord would not utterly destroy the house of David, because of the covenant which He made with David, and as He said to him that He would give a light to him and his sons forever.