Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.