Bible Verses About Impenitence: General references

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Only--on the tenth of this seventh month is a day of atonements; ye have a holy convocation, and ye have humbled yourselves, and have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah;

and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God.

`For any person who is not humbled in this self-same day hath even been cut off from his people;

`And if ye walk with Me in opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins,

and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate.

`And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,

then I have walked--I also--with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;

`And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.

Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens,

and Jehovah hath separated him for evil, out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this book of the law.

God is a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times.

If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden--He prepareth it,

Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.

The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.

But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.

And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.

And He humbleth with labour their heart, They have been feeble, and there is no helper.

Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.