Sin: Repugnant to God

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.

For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.

For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You. …

For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

…for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.

There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: …

The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

The LORD detests the way of the wicked, but He loves those who pursue righteousness.

The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’

“As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?

So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

…do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.

So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

In the same way, some of you also hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.