Bible Verses About Sin (1)

`And when they have rest, they turn back to do evil before Thee, and Thou dost leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they rule over them; and they turn back, and call Thee, and Thou from the heavens dost hear, and dost deliver them, according to Thy mercies, many times,

and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they--they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, --which man doth and hath lived in them--and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened.

`And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,

and in Thine abundant mercies Thou hast not made them a consumption, nor hast forsaken them; for a God, gracious and merciful, art Thou.

`And now, O our God--God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness--let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;

and Thou art righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly;

and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;

and they, in their kingdom, and in Thine abundant goodness, that Thou hast given to them, and in the land, the large and the fat, that Thou hast set before them, have not served Thee, nor turned back from their evil doings.

`Lo, we--to-day-- are servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good--lo, we are servants on it,

and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

And for all this we are making a stedfast covenant, and are writing, and over him who is sealed are our heads, our Levites, our priests.'

As I have seen--ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself--and what?

If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! --it declareth me perverse.

How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:

His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.

Therefore do I loathe it , And I have repented on dust and ashes.

Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall from their own counsels, In the abundance of their transgressions Drive them away, Because they have rebelled against Thee.

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.