45 You are your mother’s daughter, [a]loathing husband and children; and you are the (A)sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; (B)your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:45 Or despising

45 You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised(A) her husband(B) and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.(C)

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I [a]dismissed the three shepherds (A)in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

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  1. Zechariah 11:8 Or destroyed, lit. cut off

In one month I got rid of the three shepherds.

The flock detested(A) me, and I grew weary of them

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Alas, sinful nation,
A people [a]laden with iniquity,
(A)A [b]brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.

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  1. Isaiah 1:4 Lit. heavy, weighed down
  2. Isaiah 1:4 offspring, seed

Woe to the sinful nation,
    a people whose guilt is great,(A)
a brood of evildoers,(B)
    children given to corruption!(C)
They have forsaken(D) the Lord;
    they have spurned the Holy One(E) of Israel
    and turned their backs(F) on him.

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30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 [a]undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, [b]unforgiving, unmerciful;

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  1. Romans 1:31 without understanding
  2. Romans 1:31 NU omits unforgiving

30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;(A) 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love,(B) no mercy.

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37 For they have committed adultery, and (A)blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons (B)whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them. 38 Moreover they have done this to Me: They have (C)defiled My sanctuary on the same day and (D)profaned My Sabbaths. 39 For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed (E)thus they have done in the midst of My house.

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37 for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.(A) 38 They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary(B) and desecrated my Sabbaths.(C) 39 On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated(D) it. That is what they did in my house.(E)

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“Son of man, there were (A)two women,
The daughters of one mother.

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“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.(A)

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Jerusalem’s Harlotry

15 (A)“But you trusted in your own beauty, (B)played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.

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15 “‘But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by(A) and your beauty became his.(B)

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“When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; (A)so I spread [a]My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I (B)swore an oath to you and entered into a (C)covenant with you, and (D)you became Mine,” says the Lord God.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:8 Or the corner of My garment

“‘Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment(A) over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant(B) with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.(C)

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31 (A)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way; for every [a]abomination to the Lord which He hates they have done to their gods; for (B)they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

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  1. Deuteronomy 12:31 detestable action

31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates.(A) They even burn their sons(B) and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.(C)

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20 (A)“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter, 21 that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the (B)fire?

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20 “‘And you took your sons and daughters(A) whom you bore to me(B) and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?(C) 21 You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.(D)

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you shall not (A)bow[a] down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, [b]visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

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  1. Deuteronomy 5:9 worship them
  2. Deuteronomy 5:9 punishing

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents(A) to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,(B)

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