Proverbs 27:22
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22 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
along with crushed grain,
but the folly will not be driven out.(A)
Jeremiah 5:3
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3 O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth?
You have struck them,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to turn back.(A)
Proverbs 23:35
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35 “They struck me,” you will say,[a] “but I was not hurt;
they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
I will seek another drink.”(A)
Footnotes
- 23.35 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb lacks you will say
Isaiah 1:5
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5 Why do you seek further beatings?
Why do you continue to rebel?
The whole head is injured,
and the whole heart faint.(A)
Exodus 12:30
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30 Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.(A)
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Revelation 16:10-11
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10 The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness; people gnawed their tongues in agony(A) 11 and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and sores, and they did not repent of their deeds.
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Jeremiah 44:15-16
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15 Then all the men who were aware that their wives had been making offerings to other gods and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:(A) 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.(B)
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Exodus 14:5
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5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the minds of Pharaoh and his officials were changed toward the people, and they said, “What have we done, letting Israel leave our service?”
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2 Chronicles 28:22-23
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Apostasy and Death of Ahaz
22 In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz. 23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.(A)
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Exodus 15:9
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9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue; I will overtake;
I will divide the spoil; my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’(A)
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