Psalms 50:16-21

16 But to the wicked God says:
What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?
17 aFor you hate discipline,
band you cast my words behind you.
18If you see a thief, cyou are pleased with him,
dand you keep company with adulterers.
19 “You give your mouth free rein for evil,
eand your tongue frames deceit.
20You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother’s son.
21These things you have done, and I fhave been silent;
you thought that I
Or  that the I am
was one like yourself.
But now I hrebuke you and ilay the charge before you.

Isaiah 59:1-8

Evil and Oppression

1 Behold, jthe Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,
or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
2 kbut your iniquities have made a separation
between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
so that he does not hear.
3 lFor your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.
4 mNo one enters suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
nthey conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5They hatch adderseggs;
they weave the spider’s web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
6 oTheir webs will not serve as clothing;
men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
and deeds of violence are in their hands.
7 pTheir feet run to evil,
and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
desolation and destruction are in their highways.
8The way of peace they do not know,
and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked;
qno one who treads on them knows peace.

Jeremiah 9:2-9

2
Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
Oh that I had in the desert
a travelerslodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all sadulterers,
a company of ttreacherous men.
3 uThey bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong
Septuagint; Hebrew  and not for truth they have grown strong
in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
wand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 xLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every ybrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor zgoes about as a slanderer.
5Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
6Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
aathey refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
7 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
Behold, abI will refine them and actest them,
for what else can I do, adbecause of my people?
8 aeTheir tongue is a deadly arrow;
afit speaks deceitfully;
with his mouth ageach speaks peace to his neighbor,
but in his heart ahhe plans an ambush for him.
9 aiShall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord,
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?

Ezekiel 18:10-13

10“If he fathers a son who is violent, aja shedder of blood, who does any of these things 11(though he himself did none of these things), akwho even eats upon the mountains, aldefiles his neighbor’s wife, 12oppresses the poor and needy, amcommits robbery, andoes not restore the pledge, aolifts up his eyes to the idols, apcommits abomination, 13 aqlends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; arhis blood shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 18:18

18As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, asbehold, he shall die for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 33:25-26

25Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: atYou eat flesh with the blood and aulift up your eyes to your idols and avshed blood; shall you then possess the land? 26 awYou rely on the sword, axyou commit abominations, and ayeach of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?
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