1 Kings 8:33
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33 (A)“When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and (B)if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,
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Leviticus 26:17
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17 I will (A)set my face against you, and (B)you shall be struck down before your enemies. (C)Those who hate you shall rule over you, and (D)you shall flee when none pursues you.
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Deuteronomy 28:25
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25 (A)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you (B)shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Deuteronomy 28:48
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48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he (A)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
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Leviticus 26:39-42
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39 And those of you who are left shall (A)rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
40 “But if (B)they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they (C)committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their (D)uncircumcised heart is (E)humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will (F)remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will (G)remember the land.
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Leviticus 26:25
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25 And (A)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, (B)I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
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Jonah 3:10
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10 When God saw what they did, (A)how they turned from their evil way, (B)God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
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Daniel 9:3-19
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3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by (A)prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 4 I prayed to the Lord my God and (B)made confession, saying, (C)“O Lord, the (D)great and awesome God, who (E)keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 5 (F)we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly (G)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 6 (H)We have not listened to (I)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to (J)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 To you, (K)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (L)those who are near and (M)those who are far away, in (N)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (O)the treachery that they have committed against you. 8 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because (P)we have sinned against you. 9 (Q)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 (R)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by (S)his servants the prophets. 11 (T)All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, (U)refusing to obey your voice. (V)And the curse and oath (W)that are written in the Law of (X)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because (Y)we have sinned against him. 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against (Z)our rulers who ruled us,[a] by (AA)bringing upon us a great calamity. (AB)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. 13 (AC)As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, (AD)turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. 14 (AE)Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, (AF)for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and (AG)we have not obeyed his voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt (AH)with a mighty hand, and (AI)have made a name for yourself, as at this day, (AJ)we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 “O Lord, (AK)according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, (AL)your holy hill, (AM)because for our sins, and for (AN)the iniquities of our fathers, (AO)Jerusalem and your people have become (AP)a byword among all who are around us. 17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,[b] (AQ)make your face to shine upon (AR)your sanctuary, which is desolate. 18 (AS)O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see (AT)our desolations, and (AU)the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. (AV)Delay not, (AW)for your own sake, O my God, because (AX)your city and (AY)your people are called by your name.”
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- Daniel 9:12 Or our judges who judged us
- Daniel 9:17 Hebrew for the Lord's sake
Isaiah 63:15-64:12
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Prayer for Mercy
15 (A)Look down from heaven and see,
(B)from your holy and beautiful[a] habitation.
Where are (C)your zeal and your might?
The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
are held back from me.
16 For (D)you are our Father,
though Abraham does not know us,
and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our Father,
(E)our Redeemer from of old is your name.
17 O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways
and (F)harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
(G)Return for the sake of your servants,
the tribes of your heritage.
18 (H)Your holy people held possession for a little while;[b]
(I)our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
19 (J)We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,
like those who are not called by your name.
64 (K)Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
(L)that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2 [c] as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
(M)to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 (N)When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 (O)From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
(P)no eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him.
5 You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?[d]
6 (Q)We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(R)We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 (S)There is no one who calls upon your name,
who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have made us melt in[e] the hand of our iniquities.
8 (T)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
(U)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
(V)we are all the work of your hand.
9 (W)Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
(X)and remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your people.
10 (Y)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 (Z)Our holy and beautiful[f] house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 (AA)Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?
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- Isaiah 63:15 Or holy and glorious
- Isaiah 63:18 Or They have dispossessed your holy people for a little while
- Isaiah 64:2 Ch 64:1 in Hebrew
- Isaiah 64:5 Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved
- Isaiah 64:7 Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into
- Isaiah 64:11 Or holy and glorious
Psalm 44:10
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10 You have made us (A)turn back from the foe,
and those who hate us have gotten spoil.
Nehemiah 9:1-5
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The People of Israel Confess Their Sin
9 Now on the twenty-fourth day of (A)this month the people of Israel were assembled (B)with fasting (C)and in sackcloth, (D)and with earth on their heads. 2 (E)And the Israelites[a] separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. 3 (F)And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God. 4 On the stairs of the Levites stood (G)Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God. 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting. (H)Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
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- Nehemiah 9:2 Hebrew the offspring of Israel
Nehemiah 1:8-9
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8 Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, (A)I will scatter you among the peoples, 9 (B)but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, (C)though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them (D)to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’
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Ezra 9:5-15
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5 And at the (A)evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment (B)and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees (C)and spread out my hands to the Lord my God, 6 saying:
“O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities (D)have risen higher than our heads, and our (E)guilt has (F)mounted up to the heavens. 7 (G)From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great (H)guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, (I)and to utter shame, as it is today. 8 But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a (J)remnant and to give us a (K)secure hold[a] within his holy place, that our God may (L)brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery. 9 (M)For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, (N)but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection[b] in Judea and Jerusalem.
10 “And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, 11 which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with (O)their uncleanness. 12 (P)Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land (Q)and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’ 13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for (R)our great guilt, seeing that you, our (S)God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a (T)remnant as this, 14 shall we break your commandments again and (U)intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us (V)until you consumed us, so that there should be no (W)remnant, nor any to escape? 15 O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a (X)remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our (Y)guilt, (Z)for none can stand before you because of this.”
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2 Chronicles 36:14-17
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14 All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
15 The Lord, the God of their fathers, (A)sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 (B)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, (C)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, (D)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Jerusalem Captured and Burned
17 (E)Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
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2 Chronicles 6:24-25
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24 “If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house, 25 (A)then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.
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2 Kings 18:11-12
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11 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in (A)Halah, and on the (B)Habor, (C)the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.
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2 Kings 17:7-18
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Exile Because of Idolatry
7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, (A)who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 8 (B)and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, (C)and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, (D)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves (E)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, (F)of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord (G)warned Israel and Judah (H)by every prophet (I)and every seer, saying, (J)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
14 But they would not listen, (K)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes (L)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after (M)false idols (N)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the (O)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of (P)two calves; and they (Q)made an Asherah and (R)worshiped all the host of heaven and served (S)Baal. 17 (T)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (U)divination and (V)omens and (W)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but (X)the tribe of Judah only.
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- 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
Judges 6:1-2
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Midian Oppresses Israel
6 (A)The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of (B)Midian seven years. 2 And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and (C)the caves and the strongholds.
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Joshua 7:11-12
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11 Israel has sinned; they have (A)transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the (B)devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings. 12 (C)Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They (D)turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become (E)devoted for destruction.[a] I will be with you no more, unless you destroy (F)the devoted things from among you.
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- Joshua 7:12 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Joshua 7:8
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8 O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
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