Isaiah 1:2
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The Wickedness of Judah
2 Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth,
for the Lord has spoken:
I reared children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against me.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:1
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32 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
let the earth hear the words of my mouth.(A)
Deuteronomy 30:19
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19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,(A)
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Micah 1:2
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Judgment Pronounced against Samaria
2 Hear, you peoples, all of you;
listen, O earth, and all that is in it,
and let the Lord God be a witness against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.(A)
Deuteronomy 4:26
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26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy; you will not live long on it but will be utterly destroyed.(A)
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Psalm 50:4
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4 He calls to the heavens above
and to the earth, that he may judge his people:(A)
Malachi 1:6
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Corruption of the Priesthood
6 A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”(A)
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Micah 6:1-2
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God Challenges Israel
6 Hear what the Lord says:
Rise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear your voice.(A)
2 Hear, you mountains, the case of the Lord,
and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has a case against his people,
and he will contend with Israel.(B)
Micah 3:8
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8 But as for me, I am filled with power,
with the spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob his transgression
and to Israel his sin.(A)
Amos 3:1
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Israel’s Guilt and Punishment
3 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:(A)
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Ezekiel 36:4
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4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted towns, which have become a source of plunder and an object of derision to the rest of the nations all around;(A)
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Jeremiah 22:29
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29 O land, land, land,
hear the word of the Lord!(A)
Jeremiah 6:19
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19 Hear, O earth; I am going to bring disaster on this people,
the fruit of their schemes,
because they have not given heed to my words,
and as for my teaching, they have rejected it.(A)
Isaiah 65:2
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2 I held out my hands all day long
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;(A)
Isaiah 63:9-10
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9 in all their distress.
It was no messenger or angel
but his presence that saved them;
in his love and pity it was he who redeemed them;
he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.(A)
10 But they rebelled
and grieved his holy spirit;
therefore he became their enemy;
he himself fought against them.(B)
Isaiah 46:3-4
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3 Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been borne by me from your birth,
carried from the womb;(A)
4 even to your old age I am he;
even when you turn gray I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
I will carry and will save.(B)
Isaiah 30:9
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9 For they are a rebellious people,
faithless children,
children who will not hear
the instruction of the Lord;(A)
Isaiah 30:1
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The Futility of Reliance on Egypt
30 Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord,
who carry out a plan but not mine;
who make an alliance but against my will,
adding sin to sin;(A)
Ezekiel 16:6-14
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6 I passed by you and saw you flailing about in your blood. As you lay in your blood, I said to you, “Live!(A) 7 and grow up[a] like a plant of the field.” You grew up and became tall and arrived at full womanhood;[b] your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.(B)
8 I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.(C) 9 Then I bathed you with water and washed off the blood from you and anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you with embroidered cloth and with sandals of fine leather; I bound you in fine linen and covered you with rich fabric.[c] 11 I adorned you with ornaments: I put bracelets on your arms, a chain on your neck,(D) 12 a ring on your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head. 13 You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, rich fabric,[d] and embroidered cloth. You had choice flour and honey and oil for food. You grew exceedingly beautiful, fit to be a queen.(E) 14 Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my splendor that I had bestowed on you, says the Lord God.
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Jeremiah 31:9
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9 With weeping they shall come,
and with consolations[a] I will lead them back;
I will let them walk by brooks of water,
in a straight path where they shall not stumble,
for I have become a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is my firstborn.(A)
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- 31.9 Gk: Heb supplications
Jeremiah 13:15
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Exile Threatened
15 Hear and give ear; do not be haughty,
for the Lord has spoken.(A)
Isaiah 5:1-2
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The Song of the Unfruitful Vineyard
5 I will sing for my beloved
my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.(A)
2 He dug it and cleared it of stones
and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
he expected it to yield grapes,
but it yielded rotten grapes.(B)
Deuteronomy 9:22-24
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22 “At Taberah also, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath.(A) 23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and occupy the land that I have given you,’ you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God, neither trusting him nor obeying him. 24 You have been rebellious against the Lord as long as he has[a] known you.(B)
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- 9.24 Sam Gk: MT I have
Deuteronomy 4:7-8
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7 For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call to him?(A) 8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?
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Deuteronomy 1:31
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31 and in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as one carries a child, all the way that you traveled until you reached this place.(A)
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