Judgment on Judah

Thus 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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24 because 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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16 because 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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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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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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The Lord's Indictment of Israel and Judah

(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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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.
20 Can man make for himself (E)gods?
    Such are not gods!”

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15 Because 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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25 because 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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(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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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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14 but (A)have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

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(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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