How long will you people insult me? How long will you love what is worthless and go after what is false?

"You must stop judging unjustly; you must no longer be partial to the wicked!

So Moses and Aaron went to the king and said to him, "The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says, 'How much longer will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "How much longer will you people refuse to obey my commands?

"Foolish people! How long do you want to be foolish? How long will you enjoy making fun of knowledge? Will you never learn?

How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up?

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?

Jesus answered, "How unbelieving and wrong you people are! How long must I stay with you? How long do I have to put up with you? Bring the boy here to me!"

They make their plans, and plot against him, but they will not succeed.

Those who want to kill me lay traps for me, and those who want to hurt me threaten to ruin me; they never stop plotting against me.

They are always plotting evil, always stirring up quarrels.

Even though I was the one who brought them up and made them strong, they plotted against me.

You will put them in slippery places and make them fall to destruction!

They are like a dream that goes away in the morning; when you rouse yourself, O Lord, they disappear.

By the living LORD," David continued, "I know that the LORD himself will kill Saul, either when his time comes to die a natural death or when he dies in battle.

You are guilty. You are like a high wall with a crack running down it; suddenly you will collapse.

You will be shattered like a clay pot, so badly broken that there is no piece big enough to pick up hot coals with or to dip water from a cistern."