19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. (A)Delay not, (B)for your own sake, O my God, because (C)your city and (D)your people are called by your name.”

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19 Lord, listen! Lord, forgive!(A) Lord, hear and act! For your sake,(B) my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name.”

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I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything (A)because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence[a] he will rise and give him whatever he needs.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:8 Or persistence

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity[a] he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.(A)

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  1. Luke 11:8 Or yet to preserve his good name

18 (A)O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see (B)our desolations, and (C)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.

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18 Give ear,(A) our God, and hear;(B) open your eyes and see(C) the desolation of the city that bears your Name.(D) We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy.(E)

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Why should you be like a man confused,
    (A)like a mighty warrior who cannot save?
Yet (B)you, O Lord, are in the midst of us,
    and (C)we are called by your name;
    (D)do not leave us.”

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Why are you like a man taken by surprise,
    like a warrior powerless to save?(A)
You are among(B) us, Lord,
    and we bear your name;(C)
    do not forsake(D) us!

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10 so that through the church the manifold (A)wisdom of God (B)might now be made known to (C)the rulers and authorities (D)in the heavenly places.

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10 His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God(A) should be made known(B) to the rulers and authorities(C) in the heavenly realms,(D)

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12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be (A)to the praise of his glory.

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12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.(A)

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When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

“O Lord God, please forgive!
    (A)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”

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When they had stripped the land clean,(A) I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?(B) He is so small!(C)

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“Though our iniquities testify against us,
    act, O Lord, (A)for your name's sake;
(B)for our backslidings are many;
    (C)we have sinned against you.

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Although our sins testify(A) against us,
    do something, Lord, for the sake of your name.(B)
For we have often rebelled;(C)
    we have sinned(D) against you.

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19 Please (A)pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just (B)as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”

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19 In accordance with your great love, forgive(A) the sin of these people,(B) just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”(C)

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(A)to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in (B)the Beloved.

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to the praise of his glorious grace,(A) which he has freely given us in the One he loves.(B)

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The Lord Will Restore Israel

25 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now (A)I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on (B)the whole house of Israel, and (C)I will be jealous for my holy name.

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25 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob[a](A) and will have compassion(B) on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:25 Or now bring Jacob back from captivity

I Will Put My Spirit Within You

22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: (A)It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, (B)which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.

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22 “Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name,(A) which you have profaned(B) among the nations where you have gone.(C)

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22 (A)But I withheld my hand (B)and acted for the sake of my name, (C)that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

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22 But I withheld(A) my hand, and for the sake of my name(B) I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

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