(A)The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor (B)sought what was lost; but with (C)force and [a]cruelty you have ruled them.

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  1. Ezekiel 34:4 harshness or rigor

12 (A)“What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? 13 And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

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36 (A)But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were [a]weary and scattered, (B)like sheep having no shepherd.

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  1. Matthew 9:36 NU, M harassed

16 (A)“I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy (B)the fat and the strong, and feed them (C)in judgment.”

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(A)But go rather to the (B)lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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15 And the Lord said to me, (A)“Next, take for yourself the implements of a foolish shepherd. 16 For indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in (B)pieces.

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And on her forehead a name was written:

(A)MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.

I saw (B)the woman, drunk (C)with the blood of the saints and with the blood of (D)the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

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13 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel (A)serve with [a]rigor. 14 And they (B)made their lives bitter with hard bondage—(C)in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.

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  1. Exodus 1:13 harshness

14 (A)And he deceives [a]those who dwell on the earth (B)by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword (C)and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak (D)and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, (E)to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has [b]the mark or (F)the name of the beast, (G)or the number of his name.

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  1. Revelation 13:14 M my own people
  2. Revelation 13:17 NU, M the mark, the name

(A)Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, (B)not by compulsion but [a]willingly, (C)not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as (D)being [b]lords over (E)those entrusted to you, but (F)being examples to the flock;

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  1. 1 Peter 5:2 NU adds according to God
  2. 1 Peter 5:3 masters

Renew Your Spiritual Vitality(A)

12 Therefore (B)strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

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Rich Oppressors Will Be Judged

Come now, you (A)rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your (B)riches [a]are corrupted, and (C)your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. (D)You have heaped up treasure in the last days. Indeed (E)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and (F)the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of [b]Sabaoth. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and [c]luxury; you have [d]fattened your hearts [e]as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.

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  1. James 5:2 have rotted
  2. James 5:4 Lit., in Heb., Hosts
  3. James 5:5 indulgence
  4. James 5:5 Lit. nourished
  5. James 5:5 NU omits as

24 Not (A)that we [a]have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for (B)by faith you stand.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 1:24 rule

22 Is there no (A)balm in Gilead,
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people?

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(A)“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, (B)‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep (C)which was lost!’

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49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards,

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35 (A)And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.

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13 “Woe(A) to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
And his [a]chambers by injustice,
(B)Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages
And gives him nothing for his work,

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  1. Jeremiah 22:13 Lit. roof chambers, upper chambers

10 His watchmen are (A)blind,
They are all ignorant;
(B)They are all dumb dogs,
They cannot bark;
[a]Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

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  1. Isaiah 56:10 Or Dreaming

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