Bible verses about "ungratefulness" | DouayRheims

¹ And Moab rebelled against Israel, after thc death of Achab. ² And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber, which he had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to them: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my illness. ³ And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, the Thesbite, saying: Arise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? ⁴ Wherefore, thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias went away. ⁵ And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back? ⁶ But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest to Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die. ⁷ And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words? ⁸ But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite. ⁹ And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a hill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come down. ¹⁰ And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty that were with him. ¹¹ And he again sent to him another captain of fifty men, and his fifty with him. And he said to him: Man of God: Thus saith the king: Make haste and come down. ¹² Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee, and thy fifty. And fire came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. ¹³ Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty that were with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees before Elias, and besought him, and said: Man of God, despise not my life, and the lives of thy servants that are with me. ¹⁴ Behold fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two first captains of fifty men, and the fifties that were with them: but now I beseech thee to spare my life. ¹⁵ And the angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, saying: Go down with him, fear not. He arose therefore, and went down with him to the king, ¹⁶ And said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast sent messengers to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, as though there were not a God in Israel, of whom thou mightest inquire the word; therefore, from the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. ¹⁷ So he died, according to the word of the Lord, which Elias spoke; and Joram, his brother, reigned in his stead, in the second year of Joram, the son of Josaphat, king of Juda, because he had no son. ¹⁸ But the rest of the acts of Ochozias, which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

¹ The vision of Isaias the Son of Amos, which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda. ² Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me. ³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood. ⁴ Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards. ⁵ For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. ⁶ From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil. ⁷ Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies. ⁸ And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste. ⁹ Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha. ¹⁰ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha. ¹¹ To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. ¹² When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts? ¹³ Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. ¹⁴ My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them. ¹⁵ And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, ¹⁷ Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow. ¹⁸ And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool. ¹⁹ If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land. ²⁰ But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. ²¹ How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers. ²² Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water. ²³ Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them. ²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies. ²⁵ And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin. ²⁶ And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city. ²⁷ Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice. ²⁸ And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed. ²⁹ For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen. ³⁰ When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water. ³¹ And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.

²¹ Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened.

⁸ For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

¹ I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men: ² For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity. ³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, ⁴ Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus: ⁶ Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times. ⁷ Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the truth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth. ⁸ I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention. ⁹ In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire: ¹⁰ But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works. ¹¹ Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. ¹² But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence. ¹³ For Adam was first formed; then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in the transgression. ¹⁵ Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

² Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,

¹⁶ For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.

⁴ For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat? ⁵ We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free cost: the cucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. ⁶ Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.

¹ Know also this, that in the last days shall come dangerous times. ² Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, ³ Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness, ⁴ Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God: ⁵ Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.