Bible Verses About Infidelity

What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

And thou hast said, `What--hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

Thick clouds are a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,

Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?

Who hath said to a king--`Worthless,' Unto princes--`Wicked?'

That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

And they speak against God--they said: `Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. `Also--bread is He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'

Therefore hath Jehovah heard, And He sheweth Himself wroth, And fire hath been kindled against Jacob, And anger also hath gone up against Israel,

For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation.

And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'

Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?

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.

Woe to those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as with thick ropes of the cart--sin.

Who are saying, `Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.'

Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.

Therefore hath the anger of Jehovah burned among His people, And He stretcheth out His hand against it, And smiteth it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcase is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!

By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,

For rule is on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,