38 (A)I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. (B)I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, (C)but they shall not enter the land of Israel. (D)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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“For behold, I will command,
    (A)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
    who say, (B)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

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My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, (A)nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, (B)nor shall they enter the land of Israel. (C)And you shall know that I am the Lord God.

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11 Therefore I (A)swore in my wrath,
    “They shall not enter (B)my rest.”

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He will sit (A)as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring (B)offerings in righteousness to the Lord.[a]

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  1. Malachi 3:3 Or and they will belong to the Lord, bringers of an offering in righteousness

In the whole land, declares the Lord,
    two thirds shall be cut off and perish,
    (A)and one third shall be left alive.
And (B)I will put this third into the fire,
    and refine them as one refines silver,
    and test them as gold is tested.
(C)They will call upon my name,
    and (D)I will answer them.
(E)I will say, ‘They are my people’;
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

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And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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14 (A)so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive (B)or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, (C)except some fugitives.”

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The Great Day of the Lord

[a] “For behold, (A)the day is coming, (B)burning like an oven, when (C)all the arrogant and (D)all evildoers (E)will be stubble. The day that is coming (F)shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you (G)who fear my name, (H)the sun (I)of righteousness shall rise (J)with healing in its wings. You shall go out (K)leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, (L)on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.

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  1. Malachi 4:1 Ch 4:1–6 is ch 3:19–24 in Hebrew

49 And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and (A)you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and (B)you shall know that I am the Lord God.”

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(A)And I will set my face against them. Though (B)they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, (C)and you will know that I am the Lord, (D)when I set my face against them.

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21 (A)But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, (B)I will[a] bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.”

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  1. Ezekiel 11:21 Hebrew To the heart of their detestable things and their abominations their heart goes; I will

16 The Lord has made himself (A)known; he has executed judgment;
    the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.[a] Selah

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  1. Psalm 9:16 Probably a musical or liturgical term

28 Say to them, (A)‘As I live, declares the Lord, (B)what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 (C)your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and (D)of all your number, listed in the census (E)from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30 not one shall come into the land where I (F)swore that I would make you dwell, (G)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

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32 Before him (A)will be gathered (B)all the nations, and (C)he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates (D)the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.

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17 “As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and (B)male goats. 18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of (C)clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet? 19 And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

20 “Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you push with side and shoulder, and (D)thrust at all the (E)weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad, 22 I will rescue[a] my flock; (F)they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.

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  1. Ezekiel 34:22 Or save

Now I want (A)to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that (B)Jesus, who saved[a] a people out of the land of Egypt, (C)afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

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  1. Jude 1:5 Some manuscripts although you fully knew it, that the Lord who once saved

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news (A)failed to enter because of disobedience,

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For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

(A)“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest,’”

although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for (A)they were overthrown[a] in the wilderness.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:5 Or were laid low

27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (A)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will be saved, 28 for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” 29 And as Isaiah predicted,

(C)(D)“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
    (E)we would have been like Sodom
    and become like Gomorrah.”

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  1. Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel

12 His (A)winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and (B)gather his wheat into the barn, (C)but the chaff he will burn with (D)unquenchable fire.”

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And do not presume to say to yourselves, (A)‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from (B)these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 10 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. (C)Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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