²⁷ Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.

¹⁰ Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.

²⁸ And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

⁵ Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

¹⁸ So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

³¹ But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

² For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.

³ Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

¹¹ And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

¹² So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

¹⁴ Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:

¹⁰ And he said to me, Let not the words of this prophet's book be kept secret, because the time is near.

¹¹ Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.

⁴ Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

⁵ And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.

³¹ So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

³² Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.

¹⁹ And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.

³² But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.

¹² And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

³⁹ And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

⁵ He will have blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

¹² So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

¹⁴ Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

¹⁷ As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

¹⁸ He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

¹⁹ Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.

⁶ And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.