You spurn all who go astray from your statutes, for their cunning is in vain.
With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.
Put false ways far from me and graciously teach me your law!
and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
“I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their lifeblood spattered on my garments, and stained all my apparel.
He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down in his place, as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues. Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.
And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
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