Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.
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TSK · Jeremiah 9:3
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Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.