God's warning to the wicked

But to the wicked God 

says: 

"What right have you to declare

My statutes, or take My covenant 

in your mouth,

Seeing you hate instruction

 and cast

 My words behind you?

When you saw a thief, you 

consented 

with him, and have been a 

partaker with adulterers.

 You give your mouth to evil, and 

your tongue frames deceit.

You sit and speak against your 

brother; 

you slander your own mother's son.

 These things you have done, 

and I kept silent; you thought that 

I was altogether like you;

 but I will rebuke you, 

and set them in order before 

your eyes.

 "Now consider this, 

you who forget God, 

lest I tear you 

in pieces, and there be 

none to deliver:

Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; 

and to him who orders his 

conduct aright I will show the 

salvation of God."

Amen

(psalm 50)