Lexicon :: Strong's H3988 - mā'as

“For rebellion is as [serious as] the sin of divination (fortune-telling),

And disobedience is as [serious as] false religion and idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,

He also has rejected [fn]you as king.”

The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve for Saul, when I have rejected him as king over Israel? [fn]Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for Myself among his sons.”

“Behold, how happy and fortunate is the man whom God reproves,

So do not despise or reject the discipline of the Almighty [subjecting you to trial and suffering].

“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;

My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.

“I waste away and loathe my life; I will not live forever.

Let me alone, for my days are but a breath [futile and without substance].

“Behold, God will not reject a man of integrity,

Nor will He strengthen or support evildoers.

“[Though] I am blameless,

I do not care about myself;

I despise my life.

‘Does it indeed seem right to You to oppress,

To despise and reject the work of Your hands,

And to look with favor on the schemes of the wicked?

“Even young children despise me;

When I get up, they speak against me.

“But now those younger than I mock and laugh at me,

Whose fathers I refused to put with the sheepdogs of my flock.

“If I have despised and rejected the claim of my male or female servants

When they filed a complaint against me,

“Shall God’s retribution [for your sins] be on your terms, because you refuse to accept it?

For you must do the choosing, and not I;

Therefore say what you [truthfully] know.

“Behold, God is mighty, and yet does not despise anyone [nor regard any as trivial];

He is mighty in the strength and power of understanding.

“Therefore I retract [my words and hate myself]

And I repent in dust and ashes.”

In his eyes an evil person is despised,

But he honors those who fear the LORD [and obediently worship Him with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].

He keeps his word even to his own disadvantage and does not change it [for his own benefit];

He plans wrongdoing on his bed;

He sets himself on a path that is not good;

He does not reject or despise evil.

There they were, in great terror and dread, where there had been no terror or dread;

For God scattered the bones of him who besieged you;

You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

Let them flow away like water that runs off;

When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath;

And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],

Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,

And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim [in which the tabernacle stood].

But [in apparent contradiction of all this] You [the faithful LORD] have cast off and rejected;

You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan];

They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,

The stone which the builders rejected

Has become the [fn]chief corner stone.

My son, do not reject or take lightly the discipline of the LORD [learn from your mistakes and the testing that comes from His correction through discipline];

Nor despise His rebuke,

He who neglects and ignores instruction and discipline despises himself,

But he who learns from rebuke acquires understanding [and grows in wisdom].

Therefore, as the tongue of fire consumes the stubble [from straw]

And the dry grass collapses into the flame,

So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away like fine dust;

Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts

And despised and discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.

“Because these people (Judah) have refused the gently flowing waters of [fn]Shiloah

And rejoice in Rezin [the king of Aram] and Remaliah’s son [Pekah the king of Israel],

Therefore, the Holy One of Israel says this,

“Because you have refused and rejected this word [of Mine]

And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them,

The highways are deserted, the traveler has ceased [to appear].

The enemy has broken the covenant, he has rejected the [fn]cities,

He has no regard for [any] man.

He who walks righteously and speaks with integrity,

Who rejects gain from fraud and from oppression,

Who shakes his hand free from the taking of bribes,

Who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed

And shuts his eyes to avoid looking upon evil;

You whom I [the LORD] have [fn]taken from the ends of the earth,

And called from its remotest parts

And said to you, ‘You are My servant,

I have chosen you and have not rejected you [even though you are exiled].

“For the LORD has called you,

Like a wife who has been abandoned, grieved in spirit,

And like a wife [married] in her youth when she is [later] rejected and scorned,”

Says your God.

“From Egypt also you will come away [as captives]

With your hands on your head;

For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust (confide),

And you will not be successful with them.”

And you, O desolate one, what will you do?

Though you clothe yourself in scarlet,

Though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,

Though you enlarge your eyes with paint,

You make yourself beautiful in vain.

Your lovers (allies) despise you;

They seek your life.