I greatly regret that I have made Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following Me, and has not kept My word. And Samuel was grieved, and cried to the Lord all night.

The words of his mouth are transgression and deceit; he is not inclined to understand [how] to do good.

But them that turn aside to crooked ways the Lord will lead away with the workers of iniquity; [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.

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.

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.

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

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

You have turned away from Me, says the Lord, you will go back. Therefore I will stretch out My hand, and I will destroy you, and will spare them no more.

And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because you did not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

But you, O Israel, be not ignorant, and go not to Gilgal, O [men of] Judah, and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.

For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

And his people [shall] cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.

But the just shall live by faith, and if he withdraws, My soul has no pleasure in him."

But we are not of [those] shrinking back to destruction, but of faith, to the saving of the soul.

For when they speak haughty [words] of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

For if having escaped from the corruptions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet by these, having become entangled they are defeated, the latter end has become worse for them than the first.

But it has happened to them [according to] the [saying] of the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "A sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire."

The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after [Him]; God is not before him.

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

They have all gone out of the way, they have together become corrupt, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have used deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

I have not now called you, O Jacob; neither have I made you weary, O Israel.

They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges. All their kings are fallen; there was not one among them that called on Me.

There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which in the beginning was spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard [Him],