Lexicon :: Strong's H4611 - maʿălāl

“The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed, perishing quickly because of the evil of your deeds, because you have [fn]turned away from Me.

“But they, in their kingdom,

With Your great goodness which You gave them,

With the broad and rich land which You set before them,

Did not serve You or turn from their wicked deeds.

Repay them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices;

Repay them according to the deeds of their hands;

Repay them what they deserve.

I will [solemnly] remember the deeds of the LORD;

Yes, I will [wholeheartedly] remember Your wonders of old.

That they should place their confidence in God

And not forget the works of God,

But keep His commandments,

Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices,

And a plague broke out among them.

In this way they became unclean in their practices;

They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].

Even a boy is known and distinguished by his acts,

Whether his conduct is pure and right.

“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;

Get your evil deeds out of My sight.

Stop doing evil,

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,

Because their words and their actions are against the LORD,

To rebel against His glorious presence and defiantly provoke Him.

Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,

For they will eat the fruit of their [righteous] actions.

“Circumcise (dedicate, sanctify) yourselves to the LORD

And remove the foreskin [sins] of your heart,

Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,

Or else My wrath will go forth like fire [consuming all that gets in its way]

And burn and there will be no one to quench it,

Because of the evil of your acts.”

“Your ways and your deeds

Have brought these things on you.

This is your tragedy and doom; how bitter,

How it has touched your heart!”

Then the LORD gave me knowledge [of their plot], and I knew it;

So You [O LORD] revealed their deeds to me.

“I, the LORD, search and examine the mind,

I test the heart,

To give to each man according to his ways,

According to the results of his deeds.

“Administer justice in the morning,

And rescue the one who has been robbed from the hand of his oppressor,

That My wrath will not roar up like fire

And burn so [hotly] that none can extinguish it,

Because of the evil of their deeds.

“But I will punish you in accordance with the [appropriate] consequences of your decisions and your actions,” says the LORD.

“I will kindle a fire in your forest,

And it will devour all that is around you.”’”

“But if they had stood in My council,

Then they would have caused My people to hear My words,

Then they would have turned My people from their evil way

And from the evil of their decisions and deeds.

And it shall be: like people, like priest [both are wicked and both will be judged];

So I will punish them for their ways

And repay them for their deeds.

Their [immoral] practices will not permit them

To return to their God,

For the spirit of prostitution is within them

And they do not know the LORD [they do not recognize, appreciate, heed or cherish Him].

But they do not consider in their hearts (minds)

That I remember [always] all their wickedness.

Now their deeds surround and entangle them;

They are before My face.

All their wickedness [says the LORD] is focused in Gilgal;

Indeed, I came to hate them there!

Because of the wickedness of their [idolatrous] practices

I will drive them out of My house (the land of Israel)!

I will love them no longer;

All their princes are rebels.

The LORD also has a dispute [a legal complaint and an indictment] with Judah,

And He will punish Jacob in accordance with his ways;

He will repay him in accordance with his deeds.

“Is it being said, O house of Jacob:

‘Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient?

Or are these [prophesied judgments] His doings?’

Do not My words do good

To the one walking uprightly?

Then they will cry to the LORD,

But He will not answer them;

Instead, He will even hide His face from them at that time [withholding His mercy]

Because they have practiced and tolerated and ignored evil acts.

Yet the earth [beyond the land of Israel] shall become desolate because of those who dwell in it,

Because of the fruit of their deeds.