34 Bible Verses about Decadence
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I Jehovah spake, if not, I will do this to all this evil assembly setting up against me: in this desert shall they be finished, and there shall they die.
And the soul which shall do with a high hand, from the native, and from the stranger, it reproaches Jehovah, and that soul was cut off from the midst of its people. For it despised the word of Jehovah, and broke his command; being cut off, that soul shall be cut off; its iniquity upon it
And behold, a man from the sons of Israel went, and he will bring to his brethren a Midianitess before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the assembly of the sons of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tent of appointment And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, will see, and he will rise up from the midst of the assembly and will take a spear in his hand; And he will go after the man of Israel to the tent, and will pierce the two of them, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly: and the smiting will be withheld from the sons of Israel.read more.
And they dying in the smiting will be four and twenty thousand.
They doing good to their heart, and behold, the men of the city, men of the sons of Belial, encompassed the house, knocking upon the door; and they will say to the man, the lord of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man which came into thy house, and we will know him.
And Eli a very old man, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel; and they will lie with the women going forth at the door of the tent of appointment And he will say to them, Wherefore will ye do according to these words? which I heard very evil words of all this people. Nay, sons, for not a good report which I heard: causing the people of Jehovah to pass by.read more.
If a man shall sin against a man, and God judged him; and if a man shall sin against Jehovah, who shall judge for him? and they will not hear to the voice of their father for Jehovah was willing to destroy them.
And the boy Samuel serving Jehovah before Eli, and the word of Jehovah was precious in those days; no vision spread abroad.
And it will be after this, and Benhadad king of Aram will gather all his camp and come up and press upon Shomeron. And a great famine will be in Shomeron: and behold them pressing upon it till the head of an ass was for eighty of silver, and the fourth of a cup of doves dung, for five of silver. And the king of Israel will be passing by upon the wall, and a woman cried out to him, saying, Save, O lord the king.read more.
And he will say, Wilt not Jehovah save thee, from whence shall I save thee from the threshing-floor or from the wine-press? And the king will say to her, What to thee? and she will say, This woman said to me, Thou shalt give thy son, and we will eat him this day, and my son we will eat to-morrow. And we shall boil my son, and eat him: and saying to her on the day after, Thou shalt give thy son, and we will eat him: and she will hide her son
And in his being strong his heart was lifted up even to destruction: for he will transgress against Jehovah his God, and come in to the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense. And Azariah the priest will go in after him, and with him eighty priests to Jehovah, sons of strength. And they will stand against Uzziah the king, and say to him, Not to thee, Uzziah, to burn incense to Jehovah, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron, being consecrated to burn incense: go forth from the holy place, for thou didst trespass; and not to thee for honor from Jehovah God.read more.
And Uzziah will he angry, and in his hand a censer to burn incense: and in his being angry with the priests, the leprosy rose in his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah, from above to the altar of incense. And Azariah the head priest will turn to him, and all the priests, and behold, he was smitten in his forehead, and they will drive him out from thence; and he also hastened to go forth, for Jehovah struck him. And Uzziah the king will be smitten even to the day of his death; and he dwelt in a house of infirmity, leprous; for he was cut off from the house of Jehovah: and Jotham his son over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
And the king rose up in his wrath from the drinking of wine, to the garden of the palace: and Haman stood up to seek out for his soul from Esther the queen; for he saw that evil was completed for him from the king.
Also the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and the flame of his fire shall not shine; The light was darkened in his tent, and his lamp shall be extinguished for him.
To the overseer instruction to David: In the coming of Doeg the Edomite to Saul, and he will say to him, David came to the house of Ahimelech. Why wilt thou boast in evil, thou strong one? the mercy of God is all the day. Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit. Thou lovedst evil above good; falsehood more than speaking justice. Silence.read more.
Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit
They all drew back: together they were corrupt; none doing good, not even one.
The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.
The images of the nation are silver and gold, the work of man's hands. A mouth to them, and they shall not speak; eyes to them, and they shall not see; Ears to them, and they shall not hear; also there is no spirit in their mouth.read more.
They making them shall be as they: every one who trusted in them.
A man taking fire in his bosom, shall his garments not be burnt? If a man shall go upon burning coals shall his feet not be burnt?
How was the faithful city for a harlot! I filled with judgment; justice will lodge in her; and now they are killing Thy silver was for dross, thy wine adulterated with water. Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.
And Jehovah will say, Because the daughters of Zion were lifted up, and they will go extending the neck and ogling their eyes, going and tripping their going, and binding back their feet:
For this upon their young men Jehovah shall not rejoice, and their orphans and their widows he will not compassionate; for they all are polluted and doing evil, and every mouth speaking folly. In all this his anger turned not back, and yet his hand stretched out
Bel bent; Nebo bowed down; their images were for the beast and for the cattle: your gifts were carried; a lifting up to the weary. They bowed down, they bent together; they were not able to deliver the burden and their soul went into captivity.
Behold, the hand of Jehovah was not shortened from saving, and his ear heavy from hearing: But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide;the face from you from hearing.
Their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out innocent blood: their purposes, purposes of vanity; destruction and breaking in their highways. The way of peace they knew not, and no judgment in their paths: they perverted their beaten paths for themselves: every one treading in it shall not know peace.
How wilt thou make good thy way to seek love? for this also thou didst teach the evil ones thy ways.
Saying, If a man shall send away his wife, and she went from him and she was to another man, shall he yet turn back to her? Being defiled, shall not that land be defiled? and thou committedst fornication with many shepherds; and turn back to me, says Jehovah. Lift up thine eyes upon the naked hills and see where thou wert not lain with. Upon the ways thou didst sit for them as the ravens in the desert; and thou wilt defile the land with thy fornications and with thine evil And the showers will be withheld, and the latter rain was not; and the forehead of a woman a harlot was to thee, and thou refusedst to be ashamed.
How shall ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah with us? Behold, surely for falsehood he made the style of the scribes a lie.
Were they ashamed when they did abomination? also shaming they will not be ashamed, and they knew not to feel shame: for this they shall fall among the falling: in the time of their reviewing they shall faint, said Jehovah.
The heart is deceitful above all, and man himself, who shall know him?
For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah were only doing evil in mine eyes from their youth: for the sons of Israel were only irritating me with the work of their hands, says Jehovah.
We healed Babel, and she was not healed: forsake ye her and we will go each to his land: for her judgment reached to the heavens, and was lifted up even to the clouds.
And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel prophesying, and say to them prophesying from their heart, Hear ye the word of Jehovah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo upon the foolish prophets which are going after their spirit, and they saw not
They will not give their doings to turn back to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they knew not Jehovah.
Wo to them purposing vanity, and working evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they will do it because it is to the strength of their hand.
And I saw the woman intoxicated from the blood of the holy, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus: and wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.
