9 The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
They have brought disaster upon themselves.
Therefore pride is their necklace;
violence covers them as a garment.
Their eyes swell out through fatness;
their hearts overflow with follies.
They scoff and speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.
They set their mouths against the heavens,
and their tongue struts through the earth.
When I read the prophets, I see parallels, myself, between modern America, and pre-exilic northern kingdom, before the Assyrians swept them away.
[ When I read the prophets, I see parallels, myself, between modern America, and pre-exilic northern kingdom, before the Assyrians swept them away. ]
yep
likewise