Children: Wicked

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.

Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined, …

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

…whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

A wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.

A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.

He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.

There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.

Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

…slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,