Lexicon :: Strong's G3152 - mataios

Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

“You must not spread a false report. Do not join[fn] the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons that they have prostituted themselves with. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.

“Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

“Because I raised you up from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel, but you have walked in the ways of Jeroboam and have caused my people Israel to sin, angering me with their sins,

This happened because of all the sins of Baasha and those of his son Elah, which they committed and caused Israel to commit, angering the LORD God of Israel with their worthless idols.

He walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat in every respect and continued in his sins that he caused Israel to commit, angering the LORD God of Israel with their worthless idols.

Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the LORD’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him.

They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, the goat-demons, and the golden calves he had made.

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;

he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.

Job opens his mouth in vain

and multiplies words without knowledge.

Rise up, LORD!

Save me, my God!

You strike all my enemies on the cheek;

you break the teeth of the wicked.

For there is nothing reliable in what they say;

destruction is within them;

their throat is an open grave;

they flatter with their tongues.

They lie to one another;

they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,

who has not appealed to[fn] what is false,

and who has not sworn deceitfully.

Give us aid against the foe,

for human help is worthless.

Common people are only a vapor;

important people, an illusion.

Together on a scale,

they weigh less than[fn] a vapor.

Did I purify my heart

and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?

Remember how short my life is.

Have you created everyone for nothing?

The LORD knows the thoughts of mankind;

they are futile.

Give us aid against the foe,

for human help is worthless.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food,

but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.

Making a fortune through a lying tongue

is a vanishing mist,[fn] a pursuit of death.[fn][fn]

Like a flitting sparrow or a fluttering swallow,

an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.

Give me neither poverty nor wealth;

feed me with the food I need.

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting,

but a woman who fears the LORD will be praised.

“Stop bringing useless offerings.

Your incense is detestable to me.

New Moons and Sabbaths,

and the calling of solemn assemblies —

I cannot stand iniquity with a festival.

On that day people will throw

their worthless idols of silver and gold,

which they made to worship,

to the moles and the bats.

The noisy city, the jubilant town,

is filled with celebration.

Your dead did not die by the sword;

they were not killed in battle.

This also comes from the LORD of Armies.

He gives wondrous advice;

he gives great wisdom.

It will be like a hungry one who dreams he is eating,

then wakes and is still hungry;

and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking,

then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water.

So it will be for all the many nations

who go to battle against Mount Zion.

Egypt’s help is completely worthless;

therefore, I call her:

Rahab Who Just Sits.

For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said:

“You will be delivered by returning and resting;

your strength will lie in quiet confidence.

But you are not willing.”

His breath is like an overflowing torrent

that rises to the neck.

He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction

and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples

to lead them astray.

But he also is wise and brings disaster.

He does not go back on what he says;

he will rise up against the house of the wicked

and against the allies of evildoers.

For a fool speaks foolishness

and his mind plots iniquity.

He lives in a godless way

and speaks falsely about the LORD.

He leaves the hungry empty

and deprives the thirsty of drink.

“You will conceive chaff;

you will give birth to stubble.

Your breath is fire that will consume you.

All who make idols are nothing,

and what they treasure benefits no one.

Their witnesses do not see or know anything,

so they will be put to shame.

“I have not spoken in secret,

somewhere in a land of darkness.

I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:

Seek me in a wasteland.

I am the LORD, who speaks righteously,

who declares what is right.

But I myself said: I have labored in vain,

I have spent my strength for nothing and futility;

yet my vindication is with the LORD,

and my reward is with my God.

No one makes claims justly;

no one pleads honestly.

They trust in empty and worthless words;

they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

This is what the LORD says:

What fault did your ancestors find in me

that they went so far from me,

followed worthless idols,

and became worthless themselves?

Listen ​— ​the cry of my dear people

from a faraway land,

“Is the LORD no longer in Zion,

her King not within her? ”

Why have they angered me

with their carved images,

with their worthless foreign idols?

for the customs of the peoples are worthless.

Someone cuts down a tree from the forest;

it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

They are worthless, a work to be mocked.

At the time of their punishment

they will be destroyed.

They are worthless, a work to be mocked.

At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.

Your prophets saw visions for you

that were empty and deceptive;[fn]

they did not reveal your iniquity

and so restore your fortunes.

They saw pronouncements for you

that were empty and misleading.

All the while our eyes were failing

as we looked in vain for help;

we watched from our towers

for a nation that would not save us.

I went in and looked, and there engraved all around the wall was every kind of abhorrent thing ​— ​crawling creatures and beasts ​— ​as well as all the idols of the house of Israel.