“In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.”
The continued confession—lying and rebellion, conceiving and uttering falsehood—reiterates and intensifies earlier catalogs of sin. The phrase "rebelling and denying the LORD" specifies that the community's practical injustice constitutes theological rebellion: they simultaneously deny YHWH's lordship through unjust action. The turning away from following God and speaking oppression and revolt indicates that rebellion permeates social-political as well as religious registers. This verse's accumulation of confession establishes the depth of alienation from covenant: every layer of communal life is corrupted.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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