Jeremiah 2:19
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19 Your wickedness will punish you,
and your faithlessness will convict you.
Know and see that it is evil and bitter
for you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
says the Lord God of hosts.(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)
Hosea 5:5
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5 Israel’s pride testifies against him;
Ephraim[a] stumbles in his guilt;
Judah also stumbles with them.(A)
Footnotes
- 5.5 Heb Israel and Ephraim
Jeremiah 4:18
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18 Your ways and your doings
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom; how bitter it is!
It has reached your very heart.”(A)
Amos 8:10
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10 I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on all loins
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.(A)
Jeremiah 2:17
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17 Have you not brought this upon yourself
by forsaking the Lord your God,
while he led you in the way?(A)
Psalm 36:1
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Psalm 36
Human Wickedness and Divine Goodness
To the leader. Of David, the servant of the Lord.
1 Transgression speaks to the wicked
deep in their hearts;
there is no fear of God
before their eyes.(A)
Hosea 11:7
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7 My people are bent on turning away from me.
To the Most High they call,
but he does not raise them up at all.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 11.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Jeremiah 5:6
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6 Therefore a lion from the forest shall kill them;
a wolf from the desert shall destroy them.
A leopard is watching against their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many;
their faithlessness is great.(A)
Romans 3:18
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18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Zechariah 7:11
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11 But they refused to listen and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears in order not to hear.(A)
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Hosea 14:1
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A Plea for Repentance
14 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.(A)
Hosea 4:16
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16 Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
like a lamb in a broad pasture?(A)
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