But if you should say in your heart, This nation [is] greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?

Lest you should say in your heart, My strength, and the power of my [own] hand have worked for me this great wealth!

But if you shall say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?

But now hear these words, you luxurious one, that sits [at ease], that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will search Jerusalem with a lamp, and I will take vengeance on the men that despise the things committed to them; but they say in their hearts, The Lord will not do any good, neither will He do any evil.

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this [Man] who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins except God alone?"

But when Jesus perceived their reasonings, He answered and said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? That you shall say to them, Because you served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

And it shall come to pass, when you report to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, Why has the Lord pronounced all these evils against us? What is our unrighteousness? And what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?

Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers forsook Me, says the Lord, and went after strange gods and served them, and worshipped them, and forsook Me, and kept not My law.

Has not your forsaking Me brought these things upon you? Says the Lord your God.

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.

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.

[There is] usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know Me, says the Lord.

Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful. [One] speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in himself retains enmity.

And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment for myself. None of his labors shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

I also will expose your skirts upon your face, and your shame shall be seen;

therefore the Lord will humble the chief daughters of Zion, and the Lord will expose their form in that day;

for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.

Take a millstone, grind meal; remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.

Your shame shall be uncovered, your reproaches shall be brought to light; I will exact of you due vengeance, I will no longer deliver you to men.

HETH. Jerusalem has sinned a great sin; therefore has she come into tribulation, all that used to honor her have afflicted her, for they have seen her shame: yea, she herself groaned, and turned backward.

Therefore, behold, I [will] gather all your lovers with whom you have consorted, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you hated; and I will gather them against you round about, and will expose your wickedness to them, and they shall see all your shame.

And I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall break down your house of harlotry, and destroy your high place; and they shall strip you of your garments, and shall take your proud ornaments, and leave you naked and bare.

So I will turn back your ungodliness from you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt; and you shall not lift up your eyes upon them, and shall no more remember Egypt.

And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take all [the fruits] of your labors and your toils, and you shall be naked and bare; and the shame of your fornication shall be exposed. And your ungodliness and your fornication

that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.

And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of My hand.

Behold, I am against you, says the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover your skirts in your presence, and I will show the nations your shame, and the kingdoms your disgrace.