The Beginning of the History of the Hypocritical Scribes and Pharisees

Psalm 2:1 (LSB)Why do the nations rage And the peoples meditate on a vain thing?

Psalm 2:2 (LSB)The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers take counsel together Against Yahweh and against His Anointed, saying,

Psalm 2:3 (LSB)“Let us tear their fetters apart And cast away their cords from us!”

Psalm 2:4 (LSB)He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord mocks them.

Psalm 2:5 (LSB)Then He speaks to them in His anger And terrifies them in His fury, saying,

Psalm 2:6 (LSB)“But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

Psalm 2:7 (LSB)“I will surely tell of the decree of Yahweh: He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.

Psalm 2:8 (LSB)‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth as Your possession.

Psalm 2:9 (LSB)‘You shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like a potter’s vessel.’ ”

Psalm 2:10 (LSB)So now, O kings, show insight; Take warning, O judges of the earth.

Psalm 2:11 (LSB)Serve Yahweh with fear And rejoice with trembling.

Psalm 2:12 (LSB)Kiss the Son, lest He become angry, and you perish in the way, For His wrath may soon be kindled. How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!

Isaiah 9:9And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart,

Isaiah 9:10The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

Isaiah 9:11Therefore Jehovah will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,

Isaiah 9:12the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9:13Yet the people have not turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts.

Isaiah 9:14Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

Isaiah 9:15The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Isaiah 9:16For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Isaiah 9:17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spareth his brother.

Isaiah 9:20And one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

Isaiah 9:21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 5:2And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they swear falsely.

Jeremiah 5:3O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:

Jeremiah 5:5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 5:6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Jeremiah 5:7How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses;

Jeremiah 5:8they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

Jeremiah 5:9Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5:10Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah’s.

Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.

Jeremiah 5:12They have denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

Jeremiah 5:13and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

Jeremiah 5:14Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Isaiah 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.

Isaiah 1:5Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.

Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Isaiah 1:8And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Isaiah 1:9Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 1:11What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Isaiah 1:12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

Isaiah 1:13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,—I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting.

Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Isaiah 1:17learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 8:3And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Isaiah 8:4For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 8:5And Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying,

Isaiah 8:6Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;

Isaiah 8:7now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;

Isaiah 8:8and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

Isaiah 8:9Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.

Isaiah 8:10Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Isaiah 8:11For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

Isaiah 8:12Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread thereof.

Isaiah 8:13Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Isaiah 8:14And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 8:15And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Jeremiah 5:20Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

Jeremiah 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.

Jeremiah 5:28They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Jeremiah 5:29Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5:30A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

Jeremiah 5:31the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Psalm 78:18And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

Psalm 78:19Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalm 78:20Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?

Psalm 78:21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;

Psalm 78:22Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.

Psalm 11:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain;

Psalm 11:2For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string, That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;

Psalm 11:3If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?

Psalm 11:4Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

Psalm 11:5Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Psalm 11:6Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 11:7For Jehovah is righteous; He loveth righteousness: The upright shall behold his face.

Isaiah 5:18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;

Isaiah 5:19that say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

Isaiah 5:20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Isaiah 5:22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;

Isaiah 5:23that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 5:25Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 5:5And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

Isaiah 5:6and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

Isaiah 5:8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 5:9In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Isaiah 5:11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!

Isaiah 5:12And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Isaiah 5:13Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

Isaiah 5:14Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it.

Isaiah 5:15And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled:

Isaiah 5:16but Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Isaiah 5:17Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.