Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's manger, but Israel does not know; My people have not discerned.

And the lute, and the harp, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are at their feasts; but they do not regard the work of Jehovah, neither do they give attention to the work of His hands.

And no one considers within his heart, nor is there perception nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; indeed, also I have baked bread on its coals; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I prostrate myself to a piece of wood?

They have deeply corrupted, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to Your mercy remember me for Your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

Thus says Jehovah to this people: Thus they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; therefore Jehovah does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity and punish their sins.

Jehovah has sworn by the Pride of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

For there is nothing covered that will not be uncovered, nor hidden that will not be known.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one's praise will be from God.

But if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against Jehovah; and recognize that your sin will find you out.

His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

though he spares it and does not forsake it, but still keeps it in his mouth,

He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; the Mighty God casts them out of his belly.

He shall not see the streams, the rivers of honey and curds.

For he has crushed and forsaken the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.

No food is left for him; there is no travail after his well-being.

When he is about to fill his stomach, God will cast upon him the fury of His wrath, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

It has been drawn, and comes out the back; yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors come upon him;

The heavens shall lay bare his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

This is the portion from God for a wicked man, the heritage promised to him by the Mighty God.

Jehovah is known. He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

Jehovah, in trouble they have visited You; they have poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you. Therefore know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear is not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

Your way and your doings have procured these things for you; this is your evil, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

For His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps.

You have set our iniquities before You, our secrets in the light of Your countenance.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and He ponders all his tracks.

For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.

great in counsel and mighty in work; for Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.

And there is no creature that is not revealed in His presence, but all things are naked and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we must give answer.