So I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the judgment of their God.

I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of Jehovah and the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!

To whom shall He teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand the message? Those weaned from the milk and removed from the breasts.

for with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people.

But the Word of Jehovah was to them, Precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they might go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and caught.

Who has believed Our report? And to whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed?

When I say to the wicked, You shall die the death, and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the shofar and warns the people,

Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in Christ Jesus.

By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Yet they did not listen to Me, nor extend their ear, but hardened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

And Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying, The sons of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh heed me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?

Yet Jehovah has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.

And He said, Go, and tell this people, You listen to hear, but do not understand; you look to see, but do not perceive.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed.

Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

Therefore He has poured upon him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle. And it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay it to heart.

You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

And he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do not charge them with this sin. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

For whenever I speak, I cry out, I cry violence and devastation; for the Word of Jehovah has been a reproach and a derision to me all the day.

Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak in His name any more. But His Word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding it in, and I could not.

And Jehovah the God of their fathers sent to them by the hand of His messengers, rising early to send them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, to make the wrath of Jehovah swell up against His people, till there was no healing.

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam, the king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to endure all his words.

Then one of the lawyers answered and said to Him, Teacher, by saying these things You also insult us.

And the chief priests and the scribes that same hour sought to lay hands on Him, but they feared the people; for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.

The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me because I bear witness of it that its works are evil.

Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, Are we blind also?

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, desiring to hear pleasant things, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

But his delight is in the Law of Jehovah; and in His Law he meditates day and night.

I delight to do Your will, O My God, and Your Law is within My heart.

I will delight myself in Your Statutes; I will not forget Your Word.

Your Testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

Make me tread the path of Your Commandments, for I delight in it.

Their heart has been as fat without feeling, but I delight in Your Law.

Let Your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for Your Law is my delight.

I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah, and Your Law is my delight.

For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man.