Bible Verses About Infidelity

What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?'

Yet you say, 'What does God know? Can he see through thick darkness to judge?

The clouds veil him off, so that he can't see; he just wanders around in heaven.'

Should a hater of justice be in control? If you wouldn't tell a king, 'You're a scoundrel!'or nobles, 'You are wicked men!'then you shouldn't condemn the Just and Mighty One,

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

who is neither partial toward princes nor favors the rich over the poor, since they all are the work of his hands.

May ADONAI cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaks so proudly,

those who say, "By our tongues, we will prevail; our lips are with us. Who can master us?"

Yes, they spoke against God by asking, "Can God spread a table in the desert?

True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, until the vadis overflowed; but what about bread? Can he give that? Can he provide meat for his people?"

Therefore, when ADONAI heard, he was angry; fire blazed up against Ya'akov; his anger mounted against Isra'el;

because they had no faith in God, no trust in his power to save.

They say, "Yah isn't looking; the God of Ya'akov won't notice."

Take notice, yourselves, you boors among the people! You fools, when will you understand?

Will the one who planted the ear not hear? Will the one who formed the eye not see?

Next, they rejected the beautiful land, they didn't trust his promise;

and they complained in their tents, they didn't obey ADONAI.

because they defied God's word, scorned the counsel of the Most High.

So he humbled their hearts by hard labor; when they stumbled, no one came to their aid.

Woe to those who begin by pulling at transgression with a thread, but end by dragging sin along as if with a cart rope.

They say, "We want God to speed up his work, to hurry it along, so we can see it! We want the Holy One of Isra'el's plan to come true right now, so we can be sure of it!"

Therefore, as fire licks up the stubble, and the chaff is consumed in the flame; so their root will rot, and their flowers scatter like dust; because they have rejected the Torah of ADONAI-Tzva'ot, they have despised the word of the Holy One of Isra'el.

This is why ADONAI's anger blazed up against his people, why he stretched out his hand against them and struck them [so hard that] the hills shook, and corpses lay like trash in the streets. Even after all this, his anger remains, his upraised hand still threatens.

Can no one be taught anything? Can no one understand the message? Must one teach barely weaned toddlers, babies just taken from the breast,

so that [one has to use nursery rhymes]? Tzav la-tzav, tzav la-tzav, kav la-kav, kav la-kav z'eir sham, z'eir sham [Precept by precept, precept by precept, line by line, line by line, a little here, a little there].