“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life;
I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor?
In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!
Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
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