People will oppress each other— man against man,
neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise
up against the old, the base against the honorable.
Isaiah 3:5
According to Isaiah 3:5 a society which fails to honor
the old is on the brink of destruction.
The Book of Leviticus by Gordon J. Wenham P.273
“Is my complaint directed to man? Why should I not be impatient?
Look at me and be astonished; clap your hand over your mouth.
When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
They see their children established around them, their offspring before their
eyes. Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not upon them.
Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about. They sing
to the music of tambourine and harp; they make merry to the sound of the flute. They
spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.
Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
What would we gain by praying to him?’
But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the counsel of
the wicked. “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does
calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?
How often are they like
straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale? It is said, ‘God stores up a man’s
punishment for his sons.’ Let him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!
Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
For what does he care about the family he leaves behind
when his allotted months come to an end?
Job 21: 4-21
Do not snatch the word of truth from my mouth,
for I have put my hope in your laws.
Psalm 119:43
It is well known that men do, when persecution
threatens, either altogether deny the truth, or
weakly and lukewarmly confess it; but lest this
should happen to him,
David therefore prays here,
” O Lord, take not the word of truth utterly out
of my mouth,” i.e., make me, with an intrepid
spirit, always to confess the avowed truth boldly
and manfully.
Solomon Gesner (1559-1665)
from studylight.org commentaries
Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.
Psalm 144:4
You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Each man’s life is but a breath. Man is a mere phantom as
he goes to and fro:
He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth,
not knowing who will get it.
Psalm 39:5-6
fallen in the streets
the scent of REBELLION IS
in the air like
smoke of a fire
comes from everywhere
TAKING whatever it desires
yet cries go out for JUSTICE
and cries go out for
PEACE
but the TRUTH
has stumbled stumbled
fallen in the streets
fallen in
THE
STREETS Lyrics by Fraglen from ” the Power of the dogs” CD
“IT BECOMES VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE STATE
TO USE ALL OF ITS POWERS TO REPRESS DISSENT,
FOR THE TRUTH IS THE MORTAL ENEMY OF THE LIE,
AND THUS BY EXTENSION, THE TRUTH IS THE GREATEST
ENEMY OF THE STATE.”
Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda (1933-1945)
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
For since the creation of the world God’s
invisible qualities—his eternal power and
divine nature—have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that
men are without excuse. Romans 1:20
For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
Romans 2:13
(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)
Romans 2:14,15
This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares. Romans 2:16
Let God be true, and every man a liar.
Romans 3:4b
… so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Romans 3:19
