The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies (Psa. 58:3). Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth … the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (Gen. 6:1, 5). All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way (Isa. 53:6). The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can
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