Bible Verses About Impenitence

I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:

Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:

Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.

He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

Blessed is the man that is always fearful: but he that is hardened in mind shall fall into evil.

Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech.

For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more.

Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: strip you, and be confounded, gird your loins.

But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore.

Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come?

Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law.

And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not.

I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.

I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,

That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister Juda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself.

And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.

And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.

Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.

Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.