How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually.
“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant; and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.
Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.
O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors! Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.
So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
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