For (A)Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,
Because their [a](B)speech and their actions are against the Lord,
To (C)rebel against [b]His glorious presence.

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  1. Isaiah 3:8 Lit tongue
  2. Isaiah 3:8 Lit the eyes of His glory

“Go and (A)proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“I remember regarding you the [a](B)devotion of your youth,
Your love when you were a bride,
(C)Your following after Me in the wilderness,
Through a land not sown.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:2 Or faithfulness

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem:

[a](A)Break up your uncultivated ground,
And (B)do not sow among thorns.

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  1. Jeremiah 4:3 Lit Plow for yourselves plowed ground

10 Then I said, “Oh, Lord [a]God! Surely You have utterly (A)deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘(B)You will have peace’; yet a sword touches the [b]throat.”

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  1. Jeremiah 4:10 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  2. Jeremiah 4:10 Or life

11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A (A)scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness, in the direction of the daughter of My people—not to winnow and not to cleanse,

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Why has this people, Jerusalem,
(A)Turned away in continual apostasy?
They (B)hold on to deceit,
They (C)refuse to return.

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“Judah mourns
And (A)her gates languish;
Her people sit on the ground (B)in mourning garments,
And the (C)cry of Jerusalem has ascended.

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And I will (A)frustrate the planning of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and (B)I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will make their (C)carcasses food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.

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13 And I will (A)punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with plague.

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In the days of her affliction and homelessness
(A)Jerusalem remembers all her treasures
That were hers since the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And (B)no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her,
They (C)laughed at her [a]ruin.

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  1. Lamentations 1:7 Lit cessation

Jerusalem sinned (A)greatly,
Therefore (B)she has become an [a]object of ridicule.
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Even (C)she herself groans and turns away.

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  1. Lamentations 1:8 Or abomination

17 Zion (A)stretches out with her hands;
There is no one to comfort her;
The Lord has (B)commanded regarding Jacob
That those around him become his adversaries;
(C)Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.

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21 For this is what the Lord God says: “How much more when (A)I send My four [a]severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, vicious animals, and plague to eliminate human and animal life from it! 22 Yet, behold, [b]survivors will be left in it who will be brought out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they are going to come out to you, and you will (B)see their conduct and actions; then you will be (C)comforted for the disaster which I have brought against Jerusalem for everything which I have brought upon it.

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  1. Ezekiel 14:21 Lit evil
  2. Ezekiel 14:22 Lit a survivor

“Son of man, (A)make known to Jerusalem her abominations, and say, ‘This is what the Lord [a]God says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:3 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch

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