How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
    How can I hand you over, O Israel?
(A)How can I make you (B)like Admah?
    How can I treat you (C)like Zeboiim?
(D)My heart recoils within me;
    my compassion grows warm and tender.

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20 (A)Is Ephraim my dear son?
    (B)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
    I do remember him still.
(C)Therefore my heart[a] yearns for him;
    I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels

Lament over Jerusalem

37 (A)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have (C)gathered (D)your children together (E)as a hen gathers her brood (F)under her wings, and (G)you were not willing!

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What shall I do with you, (A)O (B)Ephraim?
    What shall I do with you, O (C)Judah?
Your love is (D)like a morning cloud,
    (E)like the dew that goes early away.

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36 For (A)the Lord will vindicate[a] his people
    (B)and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
    and there is none remaining, (C)bond or free.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:36 Septuagint judge

23 the whole land burned out with brimstone and (A)salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, (B)an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, (C)Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath—

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just as (A)Sodom and Gomorrah and (B)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and (C)pursued unnatural desire,[a] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

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  1. Jude 1:7 Greek different flesh

if by (A)turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, (B)making them an example of (C)what is going to happen to the ungodly;[a]

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  1. 2 Peter 2:6 Some manuscripts an example to those who were to be ungodly

11 “I overthrew some of you,
    (A)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were (B)as a brand[a] plucked out of the burning;
(C)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:11 That is, a burning stick

20 “Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;
    (A)my stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
    because I have been very rebellious.
(B)In the street the sword bereaves;
    in the house it is like death.

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23 (A)But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them, (B)and he turned toward them, (C)because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.

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16 And when (A)the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem (B)to destroy it, (C)the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel (D)who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And (E)the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of (F)Araunah the Jebusite.

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16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and (A)he became impatient over the misery of Israel.

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24 Then (A)the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

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Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim

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18 and (A)cried out (B)as they saw the smoke of her burning,

(C)“What city was like the great city?”

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and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically[a] is called (A)Sodom and (B)Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

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  1. Revelation 11:8 Greek spiritually

Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

41 (A)And when he drew near and saw the city, (B)he wept over it, 42 saying, (C)“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now (D)they are hidden from your eyes.

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Therefore, (A)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become (B)like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites (C)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

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(A)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

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(A)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

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33 (A)for he does not afflict from his heart
    or (B)grieve the children of men.

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Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, (A)I will refine them and (B)test them,
    for what else can I do, (C)because of my people?

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12 Go, and proclaim these words toward (A)the north, and say,

(B)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
    for (C)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
(D)I will not be angry forever.

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Prayer for Mercy

15 (A)Look down from heaven and see,
    (B)from your holy and beautiful[a] habitation.
Where are (C)your zeal and your might?
    The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
    are held back from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:15 Or holy and glorious

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