Jeremiah 44:16
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16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you.(A)
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Luke 19:27
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27 But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to rule over them—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.’ ”
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Luke 19:14
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14 But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
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Daniel 3:15
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15 Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble, you should fall down and worship the statue that I have made. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire, and who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”(A)
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Jeremiah 38:4
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4 Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to be put to death because he is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city and all the people by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm.”(A)
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Jeremiah 18:18
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A Plot against Jeremiah
18 Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him,[a] and let us not heed any of his words.”(A)
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- 18.18 Heb strike him with the tongue
Jeremiah 16:15-17
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15 but “As the Lord lives who brought the people of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the lands where he had driven them.” For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their ancestors.(A)
16 I am now sending for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall catch them, and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.(B) 17 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my presence, nor is their iniquity concealed from my sight.(C)
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Jeremiah 11:10
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10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their ancestors of old, who refused to heed my words; they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant that I made with their ancestors.(A)
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Jeremiah 11:8
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8 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of an evil will. So I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.(A)
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Jeremiah 8:12
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12 They acted shamefully; they committed abomination,
yet they were not at all ashamed;
they did not know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
at the time when I punish them, they shall be overthrown,
says the Lord.(A)
Jeremiah 8:6
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6 I have given heed and listened,
but they do not speak honestly;
no one repents of wickedness,
saying, “What have I done!”
All of them turn to their own course
like a horse plunging headlong into battle.(A)
Isaiah 3:9
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9 The look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them,
for they have brought evil on themselves.(A)
Psalm 73:8-9
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8 They scoff and speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.(A)
9 They set their mouths against heaven,
and their tongues range over the earth.
Psalm 2:3
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3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast their cords from us.”
Job 21:14-15
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14 They say to God, ‘Leave us alone!
We do not desire to know your ways.(A)
15 What is the Almighty,[a] that we should serve him?
And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’(B)
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- 21.15 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Job 15:25-27
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25 Because they stretched out their hands against God
and bid defiance to the Almighty,[a](A)
26 running stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;
27 because they have covered their faces with their fat
and gathered fat upon their loins,(B)
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- 15.25 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Exodus 5:2
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2 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”(A)
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