Your iniquities and (A)the iniquities of your fathers together,”
Says the Lord,
(B)“Who have burned incense on the mountains
(C)And blasphemed Me on the hills;
Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”

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both your sins(A) and the sins of your ancestors,”(B)
    says the Lord.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
    and defied me on the hills,(C)
I will measure into their laps
    the full payment(D) for their former deeds.”

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“On(A) a lofty and high mountain
You have set (B)your bed;
Even there you went up
To offer sacrifice.

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You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;(A)
    there you went up to offer your sacrifices.(B)

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(A)you shall not bow down to them nor [a]serve them. (B)For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, (C)visiting[b] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 20:5 worship
  2. Exodus 20:5 punishing

You shall not bow down to them or worship(A) them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,(B) punishing the children for the sin of the parents(C) to the third and fourth generation(D) of those who hate me,

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27 “Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “In this too your fathers have (A)blasphemed Me, by being unfaithful to Me. 28 When I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and (B)they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their offerings. There they also sent up their (C)sweet aroma and poured out their drink offerings.

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27 “Therefore, son of man, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In this also your ancestors(A) blasphemed(B) me by being unfaithful to me:(C) 28 When I brought them into the land(D) I had sworn to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that aroused my anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.(E)

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25 (A)This is your lot,
The portion of your measures from Me,” says the Lord,
“Because you have forgotten Me
And trusted in (B)falsehood.

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25 This is your lot,
    the portion(A) I have decreed for you,”
declares the Lord,
“because you have forgotten(B) me
    and trusted in false gods.(C)

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16 (A)forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always (B)to fill up the measure of their sins; (C)but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

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16 in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles(A) so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit.(B) The wrath of God has come upon them at last.[a]

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or them fully

31 “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that (A)you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 (B)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. 33 Serpents, (C)brood[a] of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 (D)Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: (E)some of them you will kill and crucify, and (F)some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35 (G)that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, (H)from the blood of righteous Abel to (I)the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

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  1. Matthew 23:33 offspring

31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.(A) 32 Go ahead, then, and complete(B) what your ancestors started!(C)

33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers!(D) How will you escape being condemned to hell?(E) 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify;(F) others you will flog in your synagogues(G) and pursue from town to town.(H) 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel(I) to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah,(J) whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.(K) 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.(L)

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“O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

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We and our kings, our princes and our ancestors are covered with shame, Lord, because we have sinned against you.(A)

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(A)If he has not eaten [a]on the mountains,
Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
Nor (B)defiled his neighbor’s wife,
Nor approached (C)a woman during her impurity;

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  1. Ezekiel 18:6 At the mountain shrines

He does not eat at the mountain(A) shrines
    or look to the idols(B) of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife
    or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.(C)

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19 (A)Do they provoke Me to anger?” says the Lord. “Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?”

20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place—on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched.”

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19 But am I the one they are provoking?(A) declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?(B)

20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign(C) Lord says: My anger(D) and my wrath will be poured(E) out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.(F)

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29 (A)Shall I not punish them for these things?’ says the Lord.
‘Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?’

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29 Should I not punish them for this?”
    declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge(A) myself
    on such a nation as this?

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Shall I not punish them for these things?” says the Lord.
“And shall I not (A)avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

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Should I not punish them for this?”(A)
    declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge(B) myself
    on such a nation as this?

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“Behold, (A)it is written before Me:
(B)I will not keep silence, (C)but will repay—
Even repay into their bosom—

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“See, it stands written before me:
    I will not keep silent(A) but will pay back(B) in full;
    I will pay it back into their laps(C)

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