24 I dealt with them (A)according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.

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19 (A)I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. (B)In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.

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18 Your ways and your deeds
    have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and (A)it is bitter;
    it has reached your very heart.”

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19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
    and (B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
    for (D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when (B)he led you in the way?

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(A)we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly (B)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. (C)We have not listened to (D)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to (E)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. To you, (F)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (G)those who are near and (H)those who are far away, in (I)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (J)the treachery that they have committed against you. To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because (K)we have sinned against you. (L)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 (M)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by (N)his servants the prophets.

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25 (A)Your iniquities have turned these away,
    and your sins have kept good from you.

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17 (A)He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
    and a helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
    and wrapped himself in (B)zeal as a cloak.
18 (C)According to their deeds, so will he repay,
    wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies;
    (D)to the coastlands he will render repayment.

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11 (A)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

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20 but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    (A)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

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Exile Because of Idolatry

And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, (A)who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods (B)and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, (C)and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, (D)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves (E)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, (F)of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord (G)warned Israel and Judah (H)by every prophet (I)and every seer, saying, (J)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

14 But they would not listen, (K)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes (L)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after (M)false idols (N)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the (O)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of (P)two calves; and they (Q)made an Asherah and (R)worshiped all the host of heaven and served (S)Baal. 17 (T)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (U)divination and (V)omens and (W)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but (X)the tribe of Judah only.

19 (Y)Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them (Z)and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

21 (AA)When he had torn Israel from the house of David, (AB)they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord (AC)and made them commit great sin. 22 The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, 23 until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, (AD)as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. (AE)So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire

24 (A)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

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