corrupt & vile & history

  Jeremiah 6:28   They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. 

  Isaiah 32:6   For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 

Psalms 73:8   They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
  Psalms 73:9   They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
  Psalms 73:10   Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
  Psalms 73:11   And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
  Psalms 73:12   Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
  Psalms 73:13   Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
  Psalms 73:14   For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
  Psalms 73:15   If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
  Psalms 73:16   When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
  Psalms 73:17   Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
  Psalms 73:18   Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
  Psalms 73:19   How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
  Psalms 73:20   As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying:
6 Let us go up against Judah and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, yea, the son of Tabeal.
7 Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken that it be not a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe surely ye shall not be established.
isa 7.5



  Romans 9:21   Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
  Romans 9:22   What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

  Numbers 10:21   And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
  Numbers 10:22   And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud


  Job 30.8:They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.  

a message from the book of mormon
3 nephi 1 

28 And it came to pass that in the ninety and fourth year they began to increase in a great degree, because there were many dissenters of the Nephites who did flee unto them, which did cause much sorrow unto those Nephites who did remain in the land.

29 And there was also a cause of much sorrow among the Lamanites; for behold, they had many children who did grow up and began to wax strong in years, that they became for themselves, and were led away by some who were Zoramites, by their lyings and their flattering words, to join those Gadianton robbers.

30 And thus were the Lamanites afflicted also, and began to decrease as to their faith and righteousness, because of the wickedness of the rising generation.