47. and they that traffick traffick to become a spoil: the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons,
48. the more will I hate them for their sins, says the Lord.
49. Like as a right honest and virtuous woman hates a harlot,
50. so shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decketh herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he comes that shall defend him that diligently searcheth out every sin upon earth.
51. Therefore be you⌃ not like thereto, nor to the works thereof.
52. For yet a little while, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign over us.
53. Let not the sinner say that he has not sinned: for he shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which says, I have not sinned before God and his glory.
54. Behold, the Lord knows all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts.
55. Who said, Let the earth be made; and it was made: Let the heaven be made; and it was made.
56. And at his word were the stars established, and he knows the number of the stars.
57. Who searcheth the deep, and the treasures thereof; he has measured the sea, and what it contains.