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Then I will teach ¹  rebels your merciful ways, ²  and sinners will turn ³  to you.

Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; ¹  evil men have no future. ² 

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, ¹  I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law. ² 

So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes, ¹  he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, ²  because he willingly submitted ³  to death and was numbered with the rebels, when he lifted up the sin of many and intervened ⁴  on behalf of the rebels.”

Remember this, so you can be brave! ¹  Think about it, you rebels! ² 

But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators. ¹ 

For I tell you that this scripture must be ¹  fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ ²  For what is written about me is being fulfilled.” ³ 

Toward the end of their rule, when rebellious acts ¹  are complete, a rash ²  and deceitful ³  king will arise. ⁴ 

Like an archer who wounds at random, ¹  so is the one who hires ²  a fool or hires any passer-by.

All rebellious sinners will be shattered, ¹  those who abandon the Lord will perish.

Who is wise? Let him discern ¹  these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble.

Keen insight ¹  wins ²  favor, but the conduct ³  of the unfaithful is harsh. ⁴ 

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, ¹  fell into transgression. ² 

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” ¹  also said, “Do not murder.” ²  Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. ¹  For I know that you are very deceitful; ²  you were labeled ³  a rebel from birth.

but the wicked ¹  will be removed ²  from the land, and the treacherous ³  will be torn away ⁴  from it.

The integrity of the upright guides them, ¹  but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroys them. ² 

The wicked become ¹  a ransom ²  for the righteous, and the faithless ³  are taken ⁴  in the place of the upright.

You, O Lord God, the invincible warrior, ¹  the God of Israel, rouse yourself and punish ²  all the nations! Have no mercy on any treacherous evildoers! (Selah)