מוֹעֵצָה

Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”