²⁷ Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.

¹⁰ Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not see the majesty of Yahweh.

²⁸ Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

⁵ and don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have provoked [you] to anger before the builders.

¹⁸ So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

³¹ but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

² For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

³ For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

¹¹ Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

¹² that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

¹⁴ Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works,

¹⁰ He said to me, "Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

¹¹ He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still."

⁴ saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

⁵ He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

³¹ Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

³² Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

¹⁹ Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.

³² Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn't let the people go.

¹² Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.

³⁹ Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

⁵ He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, Righteousness from the God of his salvation.

¹² So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, That they might walk in their own counsels.

¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁷ Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

¹⁸ He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, Like oil into his bones.

¹⁹ Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, For the belt that is always around him.

⁶ I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, But it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.