Your eyes will see strange things, ¹  and your mind will speak perverse things.

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed ¹  from their filthiness. ² 

The Beloved about Her Lover: His left hand caresses my head, and his right hand stimulates me. ¹ 

“Indeed, ¹  my plans ²  are not like ³  your plans, and my deeds ⁴  are not like ⁵  your deeds,

ש (Sin/Shin) You have heard ¹  their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me.

Look, you are wiser than Daniel; ¹  no secret is hidden from you. ² 

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you think you are godlike, ¹ 

Although I trained and strengthened them, ¹  they plot evil against me!

“Do not think that I have come to bring ¹  peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

One ¹  should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Did the word of God begin with you, ¹  or did it come to you alone?

Above all, you do well if you recognize ¹  this: ²  No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet’s own imagination, ³ 

For they said to you, “In the end time there will come ¹  scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.” ² 

When such a person ¹  hears the words of this oath he secretly ²  blesses himself ³  and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” ⁴  This will destroy ⁵  the watered ground with the parched. ⁶ 

But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.’” ¹ 

These wicked people refuse to obey what I have said. ¹  They follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts and pay allegiance ²  to other gods by worshiping and serving them. So ³  they will become just like these linen shorts which are good for nothing.

And you have acted even more wickedly than your ancestors! Each one of you has followed the stubborn inclinations of your own wicked heart and not obeyed me. ¹ 

The Lord who rules over all ¹  says to the people of Jerusalem: ²  “Do not listen to what those prophets are saying to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They are reporting visions of their own imaginations, not something the Lord has given them to say. ³ 

They continually say ¹  to those who reject what the Lord has said, ²  ‘Things will go well for you!’ ³  They say to all those who follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you!’

For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts ¹  were darkened.