Lexicon :: Strong's H3988 - mā'as

“if you reject my statutes and despise my ordinances, and do not observe all my commands ​— ​and break my covenant,

“For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they make amends for their iniquity, because they rejected my ordinances and abhorred my statutes.

“but for a whole month ​— ​until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes nauseating to you ​— ​because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and wept before him, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt? ’ ”

“I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it.

Zebul replied, “What do you have to say now? You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him? ’ Aren’t these the troops you despised? Now go and fight them! ”

But the LORD told him, “Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king.

“But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions. You said to him, ‘You[fn] must set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”

For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,

he has rejected you as king.

Samuel replied to Saul, “I will not return with you. Because you rejected the word of the LORD, the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

The LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem because I have selected for myself a king from his sons.”

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or his stature because I have rejected him. Humans do not see what the LORD sees,[fn] for humans see what is visible, but the LORD sees the heart.”

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.

So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, punished them, and handed them over to plunderers until he had banished them from his presence.

For the LORD had said, “I will also remove Judah from my presence just as I have removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, that I have chosen, and the temple about which I said, ‘My name will be there.’ ”

See how happy is the person whom God corrects;

so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt.[fn]

My skin forms scabs[fn] and then oozes.

I give up! I will not live forever.

Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.[fn]

Look, God does not reject a person of integrity,

and he will not support[fn] evildoers.

Though I am blameless,

I no longer care about myself;

I renounce my life.

“Is it good for you to oppress,

to reject the work of your hands,

and favor[fn] the plans of the wicked?

Even young boys scorn me.

When I stand up, they mock me.

But now they mock me,

men younger than I am,

whose fathers I would have refused to put

with my sheep dogs.

If I have dismissed the case of my male or female servants

when they made a complaint against me,

Should God repay you on your terms

when you have rejected his?

You must choose, not I!

So declare what you know.

Yes, God is mighty, but he despises no one;

he understands all things.[fn]

Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them;

I am dust and ashes.[fn][fn]

who despises the one rejected by the LORD[fn]

but honors those who fear the LORD,

who keeps his word whatever the cost,

Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.

He sets himself on a path that is not good,

and he does not reject evil.

Then they will be filled with dread —

dread like no other —

because God will scatter

the bones of those who besiege you.

You will put them to shame,

for God has rejected them.

May they vanish like water that flows by;

may they aim their blunted arrows.[fn]

God heard and became furious;

he completely rejected Israel.

He rejected the tent of Joseph

and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

But you have spurned and rejected him;

you have become enraged with your anointed.

They despised the pleasant land

and did not believe his promise.

The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone.

Do not despise the LORD’s instruction, my son,

and do not loathe his discipline;

Anyone who ignores discipline despises himself,

but whoever listens to correction acquires good sense.[fn]

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw

and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,

so their roots will become like something rotten

and their blossoms will blow away like dust,

for they have rejected

the instruction of the LORD of Armies,

and they have despised

the word of the Holy One of Israel.

“By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good, he will be eating curds[fn] and honey.

Because these people rejected

the slowly flowing water of Shiloah

and rejoiced with[fn] Rezin

and the son of Remaliah,

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says:

“Because you have rejected this message

and have trusted in oppression and deceit,

and have depended on them,

For on that day, every one of you will reject the worthless idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

The highways are deserted;

travel has ceased.

An agreement has been broken,

cities[fn] despised,

and human life disregarded.

The one who lives righteously

and speaks rightly,

who refuses profit from extortion,

whose hand never takes a bribe,

who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots

and shuts his eyes against evil schemes —

I brought[fn] you from the ends of the earth

and called you from its farthest corners.

I said to you: You are my servant;

I have chosen you; I haven’t rejected you.

“For the LORD has called you,

like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,

a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”

says your God.

Moreover, you will be led out from here

with your hands on your head

since the LORD has rejected those you trust;

you will not succeed even with their help.[fn]

And you, devastated one, what are you doing

that you dress yourself in scarlet,

that you adorn yourself with gold jewelry,

that you enhance your eyes with makeup?

You beautify yourself for nothing.

Your lovers reject you;

they intend to take your life.