Holy Spirit: Withdrawn from Incorrigible Sinners

So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand, …

Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!

Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.