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11 But the wicked are doomed,
    for they will get exactly what they deserve.

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11 Woe to the wicked!(A)
    Disaster(B) is upon them!
They will be paid back(C)
    for what their hands have done.(D)

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13 The wicked will not prosper, for they do not fear God. Their days will never grow long like the evening shadows.

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13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God,(A) it will not go well with them, and their days(B) will not lengthen like a shadow.

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20 “No longer will babies die when only a few days old.
    No longer will adults die before they have lived a full life.
No longer will people be considered old at one hundred!
    Only the cursed will die that young!

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20 “Never again will there be in it
    an infant(A) who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not live out his years;(B)
the one who dies at a hundred
    will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
    will be considered accursed.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches

13 Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“My servants will eat,
    but you will starve.
My servants will drink,
    but you will be thirsty.
My servants will rejoice,
    but you will be sad and ashamed.
14 My servants will sing for joy,
    but you will cry in sorrow and despair.
15 Your name will be a curse word among my people,
    for the Sovereign Lord will destroy you
    and will call his true servants by another name.

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13 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“My servants will eat,(A)
    but you will go hungry;(B)
my servants will drink,(C)
    but you will go thirsty;(D)
my servants will rejoice,(E)
    but you will be put to shame.(F)
14 My servants will sing(G)
    out of the joy of their hearts,
but you will cry out(H)
    from anguish of heart
    and wail in brokenness of spirit.
15 You will leave your name
    for my chosen ones to use in their curses;(I)
the Sovereign Lord will put you to death,
    but to his servants he will give another name.(J)

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31 Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way,
    choking on their own schemes.

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31 they will eat the fruit of their ways
    and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.(A)

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Give them the punishment they so richly deserve!
    Measure it out in proportion to their wickedness.
Pay them back for all their evil deeds!
    Give them a taste of what they have done to others.

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Repay them for their deeds
    and for their evil work;
repay them for what their hands have done(A)
    and bring back on them what they deserve.(B)

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13 There will be no mercy for those who have not shown mercy to others. But if you have been merciful, God will be merciful when he judges you.

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13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.(A) Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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10 For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body.

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10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us(A) for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

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20 “But those who still reject me are like the restless sea,
    which is never still
    but continually churns up mud and dirt.
21 There is no peace for the wicked,”
    says my God.

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20 But the wicked(A) are like the tossing sea,(B)
    which cannot rest,
    whose waves cast up mire(C) and mud.
21 “There is no peace,”(D) says my God, “for the wicked.”(E)

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22 “But there is no peace for the wicked,”
    says the Lord.

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22 “There is no peace,”(A) says the Lord, “for the wicked.”(B)

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O deceptive tongue, what will God do to you?
    How will he increase your punishment?
You will be pierced with sharp arrows
    and burned with glowing coals.

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What will he do to you,
    and what more besides,
    you deceitful tongue?
He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows,(A)
    with burning coals of the broom bush.

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12     unfailing love, O Lord, is yours.
Surely you repay all people
    according to what they have done.

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12     and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”;(A)
and, “You reward everyone
    according to what they have done.”(B)

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The Lord examines both the righteous and the wicked.
    He hates those who love violence.
He will rain down blazing coals and burning sulfur on the wicked,
    punishing them with scorching winds.

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The Lord examines the righteous,(A)
    but the wicked, those who love violence,
    he hates with a passion.(B)
On the wicked he will rain
    fiery coals and burning sulfur;(C)
    a scorching wind(D) will be their lot.

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