Amos 2:4

English Standard Version

Judgment on Judah

⁴Thus says the Lord:

^(A)“For three transgressions of Judah,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(B)they have rejected the law of the Lord,
    and have not kept his statutes,
but ^(C)their lies have led them astray,
    those after which their fathers walked.

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Amos 2:4

New International Version

⁴This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Judah,^(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because they have rejected the law^(B) of the Lord
    and have not kept his decrees,^(C)
because they have been led astray^(D) by false gods,^[a]^(E)
    the gods^[b] their ancestors followed,^(F)

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Amos 2:4 Or by lies
Amos 2:4 Or lies

Ezekiel 20:24

English Standard Version

²⁴because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, ^(A)and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.

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Ezekiel 20:24

New International Version

²⁴because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees^(A) and desecrated my Sabbaths,^(B) and their eyes lusted after^(C) their parents’ idols.^(D)

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Ezekiel 20:16

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¹⁶because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; ^(A)for their heart went after their idols.

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Ezekiel 20:16

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¹⁶because they rejected my laws^(A) and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths. For their hearts^(B) were devoted to their idols.^(C)

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Ezekiel 20:13

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¹³^(A)But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. ^(B)They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; ^(C)and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.

^(D)“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.

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Ezekiel 20:13

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¹³“‘Yet the people of Israel rebelled^(A) against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws^(B)—by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths.^(C) So I said I would pour out my wrath^(D) on them and destroy^(E) them in the wilderness.^(F)

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Habakkuk 2:18

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¹⁸^(A)“What profit is an idol
    when its maker has shaped it,
    a metal image, ^(B)a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
    when he makes ^(C)speechless idols!

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Habakkuk 2:18

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¹⁸“Of what value^(A) is an idol^(B) carved by a craftsman?
Or an image^(C) that teaches lies?
For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation;
he makes idols that cannot speak.^(D)

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Hosea 12:2

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The Lord's Indictment of Israel and Judah

²^(A)The Lord has an indictment against Judah
and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
he will repay him according to his deeds.

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Hosea 12:2

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²The Lord has a charge^(A) to bring against Judah;^(B)
he will punish^(C) Jacob^[a] according to his ways
and repay him according to his deeds.^(D)

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Footnotes

Hosea 12:2 Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he takes advantage of or he deceives.

Jeremiah 16:19-20

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¹⁹^(A)O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
    ^(B)my refuge in the day of trouble,
^(C)to you shall the nations come
    from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
    ^(D)worthless things in which there is no profit.
²⁰Can man make for himself ^(E)gods?
    Such are not gods!”

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Jeremiah 16:19-20

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¹⁹Lord, my strength and my fortress,
    my refuge^(A) in time of distress,
to you the nations will come^(B)
    from the ends of the earth and say,
“Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods,^(C)
    worthless idols^(D) that did them no good.^(E)
²⁰Do people make their own gods?
    Yes, but they are not gods!”^(F)

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Isaiah 28:15

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¹⁵Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
    and with Sheol we have an agreement,
when the ^(A)overwhelming whip passes through
    it will not come to us,
for we have made ^(B)lies our refuge,
    and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

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Isaiah 28:15

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¹⁵You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death,^(A)
    with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement.
When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by,^(B)
    it cannot touch us,
for we have made a lie^(C) our refuge
    and falsehood^[a] our hiding place.^(D)”

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Isaiah 28:15 Or false gods

Romans 1:25

English Standard Version

²⁵because they exchanged the truth about God for ^(A)a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, ^(B)who is blessed forever! Amen.

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Romans 1:25

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²⁵They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,^(A) and worshiped and served created things^(B) rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.^(C) Amen.^(D)

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Amos 3:2

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²^(A)“You only have I known
of all the families of the earth;
^(B)therefore I will punish you
for all your iniquities.

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Amos 3:2

New International Version

²“You only have I chosen^(A)
of all the families of the earth;
therefore I will punish^(B) you
for all your sins.^(C)”

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Ezekiel 20:18

English Standard Version

¹⁸“And I said to ^(A)their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk ^(B)in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, ^(C)nor defile yourselves with their idols.

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Ezekiel 20:18

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¹⁸I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents^(A) or keep their laws or defile yourselves^(B) with their idols.

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Jeremiah 9:14

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¹⁴but ^(A)have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

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Jeremiah 9:14

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¹⁴Instead, they have followed^(A) the stubbornness of their hearts;^(B) they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.”

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Jeremiah 8:9

English Standard Version

⁹^(A)The wise men shall be put to shame;
they shall be dismayed ^(B)and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom is in them?

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Jeremiah 8:9

New International Version

⁹The wise^(A) will be put to shame;
they will be dismayed^(B) and trapped.^(C)
Since they have rejected the word^(D) of the Lord,
what kind of wisdom^(E) do they have?

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