From the ends of the earth we hear songs – the Just One is majestic. But I say, “I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! I’m doomed! Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!”

The destroyer is as good as dead, you who have not been destroyed! The deceitful one is as good as dead, the one whom others have not deceived! When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed; when you finish deceiving, others will deceive you!

But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” says the Lord.

For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,” says the Lord.

They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroys them.

The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the faithless will be captured by their own desires.

The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless are taken in the place of the upright.

I have received a distressing message: “The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!”

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

Certainly none who rely on you will be humiliated. Those who deal in treachery will be thwarted and humiliated.

If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your loyal followers.

I take note of the treacherous and despise them, because they do not keep your instructions.

From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the faithless desire the fruit of violence.

Keen insight wins favor, but the conduct of the unfaithful is harsh.

The eyes of the Lord guard knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless person.

Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint, so is confidence in an unfaithful person at the time of trouble.

At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!