Bible Verses About Word of God: Unbelief in

But to the wicked God says: "What right do you have to proclaim my laws or take my covenant on your lips,

when you so hate to receive instruction and fling my words behind you?

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of ADONAI,

they refused my counsel and despised my reproof.

He who despises a word will suffer for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

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.

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].

So with stammering lips, in a foreign accent, [ADONAI] will speak to this people.

He once told this people, "It's time to rest, the exhausted can rest, now you can relax" - but they wouldn't listen.

So now the word of ADONAI for them comes "precept by precept, precept by precept, line by line, line by line, a little here, a little there," so that when they walk, they stumble backward, and are broken, trapped and captured!

So listen to the word of ADONAI, you scoffers, composing taunts for this people in Yerushalayim:

For this is a rebellious people; they are lying children, children who refuse to hear the Torah of ADONAI.

They say to the seers, "Do not see!" to those who have visions, "Do not tell us the visions you have as they really are; but flatter us, fabricate illusions!

Get out of the way! Leave the path! Rid us of the Holy One of Isra'el!"

Who believes our report? To whom is the arm of ADONAI revealed?

To whom should I speak? Whom should I warn? Who will listen to me? Their ears are dull, they can't pay attention. For them the word of ADONAI has become unattractive, an object of scorn.

The wise are put to shame, alarmed, entrapped. They have rejected the word of ADONAI, so what wisdom do they have?

I write him so many things from my Torah, yet he considers them foreign.

But you gave the n'zirim wine to drink and ordered the prophets, 'Don't prophesy!'

"Don't preach!" - thus they preach! "They shouldn't preach about these things. Shame will not overtake us" -

But he replied, ‘If they won’t listen to Moshe and the Prophets, they won’t be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!’”

He said to them, “Foolish people! So unwilling to put your trust in everything the prophets spoke!

For everyone who does evil things hates the light and avoids it, so that his actions won’t be exposed.

For if you really believed Moshe, you would believe me; because it was about me that he wrote.