Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who moves it? As if the rod could swing itself at those who lift it up! As if a staff could rise up, as though it were not wood!

Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.

Because your raging against Me, and your arrogance has come up into My ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way from which you came.

As yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go.

And in the morning you shall see the glory of Jehovah; for He hears your murmuring against Jehovah. But what are we, that you grumble against us?

And Moses said, You shall see when Jehovah gives you flesh to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to the full; for Jehovah hears your murmurings which you grumble against Him. And what are we? Your murmurings are not against us but against Jehovah.

Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against Jehovah. And what is Aaron that you grumble 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 he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?

And it happened, when their hearts were feeling good, that they said, Summon Samson, that he may play for us. So they summoned Samson from the prison house, and he made sport before them. And they made him stand between the pillars.

Now the house was full of men and women. All the rulers of the Philistines were there; about three thousand men and women on the roof watching while Samson made sport.

Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the taunting song of the drunkards.

And when they had woven a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads

Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders, said,

He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, I am the Son of God.

and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who consider it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their own deceptions while they feast with you,

They also open wide their mouths against me and have said, Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen it.

And all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua at Makkedah, in peace. No one moved his tongue against any of the sons of Israel.

He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; my adversary sharpens His eyes at me.

They have gaped at me with their mouth, and struck me reproachfully on the cheek; they gather together against me.

All who see Me mock Me; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,

They have gaped at Me with their mouths, like a tearing and roaring lion.

I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.

All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which is called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.

Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have scorned the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged backward.

Woe to the rebellious children, says Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of Me; and who pour out drink offerings, but not of My Spirit; that they sweep away sin after sin;

that this is a rebellious people, lying children; children who will not hear the Law of Jehovah;

For they are impudent and hardhearted children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah.

O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they stood. The battle against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them in Gibeah.

The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

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

Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience;